Aphrodite

Medici, (marble?), rococo Stewart, T134: Pliny the Elder, Natural History 36.24 The son of Praxiteles, Cephisodotus, inherited also his skill. His group of People Grappling (symplegma ) at Pergamon is much praised, being notable for the way in which the fingers seem really to sink into living flesh rather than marble. At Rome his works are a Leto in the Palatine temple, a Venus in the collection of Asinius Pollio, and the Asclepius and Diana in the shrine of Juno within the Porticus Octaviae.