Who created Aphrodite of Knidos, the first known female statue?
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According to the University of Cambridge, Praxiteles’s ancient sculpture depicting Aphrodite in the nude was scandalous enough to be rejected by the city of Kos on Crete, who favored a clothed version. However, the original found an audience among the Knidians in Asia Minor and was eventually copied time and time again by the Romans.
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Who created Aphrodite of Knidos, the first known female statue?
- Zeuxis
- El Greco
- Pheidias
- Praxiteles
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