Part 2
Titian and the two loves (amor sacro e amor profano)
Primavera (1478) by Sandro Botticelli. It is Spring, Nature's favorite season. The three Charites (Graces) are dancing, a Nymph (Chloris) spreads flowers. It's time for a new erotic adventure represented by Aphrodite (Venus) and her flying son Eros (who uses blind his bow). The wind Zephyrus captures Chloris. Only Hermes (as the Psychopompos who carries the soul of the persons who died to the underworld ) on the left side seems to ignore everything. He knows that death does not care what season it is.
Venus and Mars, Botticelli
Giorgione's Sleeping Venus (c. 1510)
The Venus of Urbino , Titian(1538)
Venus Consoling Love, François Boucher
"Venus and Mars with Cupid" by Paris Bordone
Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces, David
Venus and Cupid, Lorenzo Lotto
Venus and Adonis, Jacopo Amigoni
Venus and Adonis, Annibale Carracaci
Venus and Adonis, Jacob Adriaensz Backer
Venus Genitrix , Arnold Böcklin
The Judgement of Paris, Peter Paul Rubens, ca 1636 (National Gallery, London)
The Judgement of Paris, Paul Cézanne, 15 × 21 cm .1862-1864, private collection
Venus and Hermes, Nicolas Chaperon
Pallas Athena, Venus and Juno, Hans von Aachen