The story
Poynter modelled her on the Esquiline Venus, excavated in Rome in 1874. When he sent a much larger version to the Royal Academy in 1885, he had added drapery to partly cover her.
Diadumenè
1884
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Object details
- Title
- Diadumenè
- Artist
- Edward Poynter
- Date
- 1884
- Culture
- Not recorded
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Object type
- Paintings
- Collection
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
- Credit line
- Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
- Object number
- EFA.0235
- Original image
- 2459 × 2480 px
- Source record
- View on Wikimedia Commons
- License evidence
- See the license
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