Fragement of The Esquiline Venus at the Louvre, Paris

This is a fragment of the Esquiline Venus. The 'Esquiline Venus' is a slightly smaller-than-life-size nude marble sculpture of a female wearing sandals and a headdress; its name 'Esquiline' comes from the site where it was discovered 'Esquiline Hill' in Rome, probably part of the same site of the Horti Lamiani where the Discobolus and Laocoon and his Sons had been found previously. In style the Esquiline Venus is an example of the Pasitelean "eclectic" Neo-Attic school, combining elements fro