Antonio Corso, "The art of Praxiteles. The development of Praxiteles'workshop and its cultural tradition until the sculptor's acme, (364–1 BC)," Rome, L'Erma de Bretchneider, 2004, pp. 257–280 – See also, implicitly, Emmanuel Daydé, "Exposition. Praxitèle aphrodisiaque", Artabsolument, n0° 21, été 2007, p. 45 (Online version)
The Head was displayed with the copy of the Venus of Arles in the nave of the old church, on either side of the tomb of Yppolyte. Cf. AN.-E Agard, "Le Musée Lapidaire d'Arles," Imprimerie générale du Sud-Ouest - J. Castanet, janvier 1924, p. 16 (read online[permanent dead link])
This process, along with the treatment of the uncovered left shoulder, connects the Head of Arles with the headless sculpture known as Aphrodite on a tortoise kept in Berlin, which has a bust serparated from its body in the same way, according to Patrimoine de la ville d'Arles : Buste d'Aphrodite[permanent dead link]. See also the note under the bust at the Musée de l'Arles antique : Illustration on Wikimedia Commons
See : Patrimoine de la ville d'Arles : bust of Aphrodite[permanent dead link]. For his part, Louis Jacquemin who praised the bust in the nineteenth century, judged that it was a "marvel of sculptural technique (which inspires) the admiration of experts" and called it one of the "masterpieces of Greek art" in which the details are "perfect," op. cit., p. 382. Similar sentiments are found in the Champollions' piece in the Bulletin des sciences historiques, antiquité, philosophie: "It is comparable to all the most beautiful and most finished products of the Greek chisel, even in the most vigorous periods" (op. cit., p. 301)
This process, along with the treatment of the uncovered left shoulder, connects the Head of Arles with the headless sculpture known as Aphrodite on a tortoise kept in Berlin, which has a bust serparated from its body in the same way, according to Patrimoine de la ville d'Arles : Buste d'Aphrodite[permanent dead link]. See also the note under the bust at the Musée de l'Arles antique : Illustration on Wikimedia Commons
Published by H. Lauter, "Der praxitelische Kopf Athen, Nationalmuseum 1762," Antike Plastik, 19, 1988, pp. 21–29 ; C. Picard, Manuel d'archéologue grecque: La sculpture. Tome 3 : Période classique, IV° s., Paris, 1948–1966, 4 vol., pp. 486–488 ; B. S. Ridgway, "The Aphrodite of Arles," in American Journal of Archæology, vol. 80, n°2, 1976, pp. 153–154 – Image on Wikimedia Commons
