Aphrodite and Venus Gallery

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

The Toilet of Venus, Diego Velazquez

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 Cupid, Jacques de Gheyn (II)

Venus and Cupid, Alessandro Allori

The Birth of Venus: a revived Venus Pudica for a new view of pagan Antiquity (Uffizi, Florence). One of the first full-length female nude in the Renaissance, Botticelli , Eva Herzigova in as Botticelli's Venus

Aphrodite of Milo in a work of Salvador Dali, The Hallucinogenic Torreador

Worship of Venus, Titian, 1519, Museo del Prado, Madrid (with many "Erotes")

Venus presenting arms to Aeneas , Nicolas Poussin

Mars and Venus , Paolo Veronese, 2nd third of 16th century

Venus Verticordia , Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1864/8

Venus and Adonis, Sebastiano Ricci 1705/6

Venus and Satyr, Sebastiano Ricci 1720

Venus in Fur-Coat, Peter Paul Rubens

Venus at a Mirror, Peter Paul Rubens

Venus and Adonis, W. Strang

Venus with the apple of Paris, Bartholomeus van der Helst

Russian Venus, Boris Kustodiev 1926

Venus with Perfume Bottle

Aphrodite, Eros and Pan from Delos

Aphrodite with the nice buttocks and molecular biology

Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo)

A Visit to Aesculapius, 1880, Sir Edward John Poynter 1836-1919) , Tate Gallery, London. (Venus with a thorn in her foot asks the help of Asclepius) with her the three Graces

Venus, 1490, Lorenzo di Credi (1459-1537) , Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence


The Pearls of Aphrodite , Herbert James Draper (1863-1920)

Diane Wolkstein , Inanna , Perennial 1983

References

Rachel Rosenzweig Worshipping Aphrodite : art and cult in classical Athens ,University of Michigan Press 2004 ISBN 0472113321

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