2-588-348 - The Art Collector/Heritage-Images

Head of Aphrodite. Detail from a Roman statue of bathing Aphrodite and Eros, after a Greek original of the second half of the 3rd century BC. In Greek mythology, Aphrodite was the Goddess of Love and Beauty and Eros was her son. Their equivalents in the Roman pantheon are Venus and Cupid. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg.