Sunday, September 20, 2020








Aphrodite and Himeros, detail from a silver kantharos (c. 420-410 BC), part of the Vassil Bojkov collection, Sofia, Bulgaria






Attic red-figure aryballos by Aison (c. 410 BC) showing Aphrodite consorting with Adonis, who is seated and playing the lyre, while Eros stands behind him



Venus and Anchises (1889 or 1890) by William Blake Richmond




First-century AD Roman fresco of Mars and Venus from Pompeii





Pygmalion and Galatea (1717) by Jean Raoux, showing Aphrodite bringing the statue to life



First-century AD Roman fresco from Pompeii showing the virgin Hippolytus spurning the advances of his stepmother Phaedra, whom Aphrodite caused to fall in love with him in order to bring about his tragic death.[159]




Ancient Greek mosaic from Antioch dating to the second century AD, depicting the Judgement of Paris



The so-called "Venus in a bikini", depicts her Greek counterpart Aphrodite as she is about to untie her sandal, with a small Eros squatting beneath her left arm, 1st-century AD[b]



Wall painting from Pompeii of Venus rising from the sea on a scallop shell, believed to be a copy of the Aphrodite Anadyomene by Apelles of Kos




The Ludovisi Throne (possibly c. 460 BC) is believed to be a classical Greek bas-relief, although it has also been alleged to be a 19th-century forgery





Attic white-ground red-figured kylix of Aphrodite riding a swan (c. 46-470) found at Kameiros (Rhodes
Red-figure vase painting of Aphrodite and Phaon (c. 420-400 BC)




Apuleian vase painting of Zeus plotting with Aphrodite to seduce Leda while Eros sits on her arm (c. 330 BC

Aphrodite Leaning Against a Pillar (third century BC


Aphrodite Kallipygos ("Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks")




Aphrodite Binding Her Hair (second century BC



Aphrodite Heyl (second century BC)




Greek sculpture group of Aphrodite, Eros, and Pan (c. 100 BC)




Aphrodite of Menophantos (first century BC




The Ludovisi Aphrodite of Knidos


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The Lely Venus (c. second century AD

Fifteenth century manuscript illumination of Venus, sitting on a rainbow, with her devotees offering her their hearts





Venus Anadyomene (c. 1525) by Titian




Venus and Adonis (1554) by Titian



The Toilet of Venus (c. 1612-1615) by Peter Paul Rubens





The Death of Adonis (c. 1614) by Peter Paul Rubens










Rokeby Venus (c. 1647–51) by Diego Velázquez



Venus and Cupid Lamenting the Dead Adonis (1656) by Cornelis Holsteyn


The Birth of Venus (c. 1485) by Sandro Botticelli



The Birth of Venus (1863) by Alexandre Cabanel



Venus and Adonis (1729) by François Lemoyne






Mars Being Disarmed by Venus (1824) by Jacques-Louis David





Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan (1827) by Alexandre Charles Guillemot

Venus Anadyomene (1848) by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres



Venus Disrobing for the Bath (1867) by Frederic Leighton




Venus Verticordia (1868) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti




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