Photo "Venus Callipiga"

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Venus Callipiga

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Vadim Nikitin add to favorites

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Pavlovsk (suburb of St-Petersburg), garden, bronze sculpture, copy from ancient original of 1 centure B.C.

Venus, or Afrodita was the etalone of beauty. From the 3 century B.C. her sculptures were made as naked (nude). The first sculpture was named “Kallipiga” what means “with beauty buttocks”. After this the cult of Afrodita (Venus) Kallipiga was differ from the cult of classic Afrofita.

Captured with a help of white background, in PS were smoothed the contrasts at skin and increased the light at the face. 

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Thu 26 Aug 2004 23:45

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