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Praxiteles

Influential Athenian sculptor of the mid-4th century BC whose masterpiece, a statue of the goddess Aphrodite, broke with convention by its show of nudity. Rejected by the more conservative cities of Greece, it was displayed in a circular shrine in the city of Cnidus.

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