PROBLEM OF A VENUS.

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17386, 26 March 1928, Page 7

PROBLEM OF A VENUS.

ONE HALF IN BELGIUM. THE OTHER IN DENMARK. How is th e lovely head of the Venus I of Cniclus to b& united to her body? j This question is being eagerly dis- ' cussed in Berlin by all who love classic I beauty. The torso of Praxiteles' statue ' is in the Cinquantenaire Museum at Brussels, and experts in Greek art have ! tried in vain to discover what the miss- ; ing head of this Venus was like. j A Danish savant, Professor Blinkeni berg, came to trie conclusion that a read in the Karlsberg-Glyptothek at ! Copenhagen was the lost head of the ' Venus of Cnidus. A plaster cast was ! made and sent to Brussels, and it was 1 found, that the head and body fitted ' together faultlessly. i The German archaeologists with whom Professor Blinkenberg has been in touch agree that there is practically Mao doubt that the two belong to each other and the question is how can they be united?- It is stated that a discussion between Brussels and Copenhagen has begun as to which city shall be the shrine of the whole Venus, j Aphrodite at the Bath, known as the

Venus' of Cnidus, was made by Praxiteles, the great Greek sculptor of the fourth century, 8.C., for the people of Cnidus. According to Pliny, King Nicomedes offered to discharge the whole debt of the city in return for the statue, but the citizens valued the work so highly that they refused the offer.