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Magna Graecia: Greek Art From South Italy and Sicily > About the Exhibition > Reggio Calabria & Sybaris > Terracotta Statuettes

This statuette of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, holding her son, Eros, in the crook of her arm, takes on a particular religious aspect. Her pose alludes to the Madonna and Child scenes of later European art and reflects contemporaneous trends in classical art as defined by the mother country. Aphrodite with Eros Statuette (about 450 BC) Medma Terracotta, orange-red clay with translucent inclusions, mold-made, hand-finished Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria, inv. 607 C [Cat. no. 34]