Phryne

Henryk Siemiradzki. Phryne at the Festival of Poseidon in Eleusin. Details. 1889. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Phryne once asked of him the most beautiful of his works, and the story goes that lover-like he agreed to give it, but refused to say which he thought the most beautiful. So a slave of Phryne rushed in saying that a fire had broken out in the studio of )

Praxiteles was commissioned to make a statue of her, the Aphrodite of Knidos. She is also said to have been the model for the Aphrodite Anadyomene of Apelles.

Dimitris Varos Greek poet writer of the book Phryne.

Audfray Etienne Phryne sculpture

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