Aphrodite ~ torso Roman marble circa 1st century A.D.  via

Aphrodite ~ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  via

or “wait a minute, I stepped in something”

A Roman Marble Torso of a God or an Athlete, Circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D.

Hermaphroditos (The Sleeping Hermaphrodite), Roman, A.D. 100–200. Marble, 59 1/16 in. long. Museo Nazionale Romano

jahsonic:

David’s penis (above) is a very small penis. I’ve been researching big penises in Greek art and came up with a few examples: A Satyr Masturbating and to a lesser extent the Delos phallus and Woman carrying an oversized caricature of a phallus prove that big phalli are also present in Ancient Greek art.

While researching, I stumbled upon a text by Denis Diderot on pubic hair in art. In the passage quelques questions que je me suis faites sur la sculpture, Diderot asks five rhetorical questions on sculpture. The second of these questions is “Pourquoi la sculpture , tant ancienne que moderne , a dépouillé les femmes de ce voile que la pudeur de la nature et l’âge de puberté jettent sur les parties sexuelles, et l’a laissé aux hommes?”

“Why has sculpture, both ancient and modern, depilated women of the veil of modesty which nature and the age of puberty have thrown on the sexual parts, and left it there for men?”

The answer, says Diderot, as translated in the essay “Diderot, Hogarth, and the Aesthetics of Depilation” by Johannes Endres, is that an “infinitely agreeable line would have its course cut through an interposed hair-tuft; that this isolated tuft is connected to nothing and serves as a blemish for the woman, while for the man this sort of natural clothing, casting a heavy enough shadow around the nipples, actually becomes lighter on the flanks and sides of the stomach but is still there, although sparsely, moving without interruption to encounter itself more dense, more raised, more full around the natural parts; it wishes to show you that depilated, these natural parts of the man will look like a small intestine, an unpleasantly formed worm.”

Aristaeus, God of the Gardens ~ François-Joseph BOSIO,  1817 Marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.  via

The Defence of Zaragoza ~ José ÁLVAREZ Y CUBERO, 1823, Marble, Museo del Prado, Madrid.  via

Psyche Revived by the Kiss of Love ~ Antonio Canova, Marble, 1787. via

Baccanale ~ Gianlorenzo Bernini,(1598 - 1680)  via

Capitoline Venus, a more accurate and the best preserved copy of Cnidian Venus (4th century BC) by Praxiteles, height 1.93 m (6 ft. 3 ¾ in.), located at the Capitoline Museums (Musei Capitolini), Rome. via

Cnidus Aphrodite, marble sculpture, Roman copy of the 4th century BC Greek original by Praxiteles located at the National Museum of Rome (Museo nazionale romano di palazzo Altemps), Italy. Only torso and thighs are originals; head, arms, legs, drapery and jug are restored.  via

L´Eveil (The Awakening) ~ Jesús Fructuoso Contreras, (1866-1902), marble - 1900  via