rise to Venusmythology Epithets Venus Cloacina . Roman folk etymology connected myrtle Latin murtos ... a temple to Venus Felix Lucky Venus Are we sure it s not Genetrix? and the goddess Roman mythology ... . See Venusmythology Festivals Veneralia in this article and Veneralia main article, Veneralia ... in Roman mythology , the literary concept of Venus is mantled in whole cloth borrowings from ... of Venus and Mars mythology Mars , the god of war. At other times, or in parallel myths and theologies, Venus was understood to be the consort of Vulcan mythology Vulcan . Virgil , in compliment to his ... German legend of the knight and poet Tannh user , Venus lives beneath the Venusberg mythology Venusberg ... Venus planet Venus symbol Hottentot Venus The Golden Bough mythology The Golden Bough myth ... VenusMythology Category Love and lust goddesses Category Fertility goddesses Category Roman ... scn V niri divinitati simple Venusmythology sk Venu a bohy a sl Venera mitologija sr ...Other uses Venus disambiguation File Aphrodite Anadyomene from Pompeii cropped.jpg thumb 400px Venus on seashell, from the Casa di Venus, Pompei. Before 79 AD. Ancient Roman religion Venus IPA la w n s lang is a Roman mythology Roman goddess principally associated with love , beauty , sex, sexual reproduction ... upper classes identified her as the equivalent of the Greek mythology Greek goddess Aphrodite . Roman mythology made her the divine mother of Aeneas , the Troy Trojan ancestor of Rome s founder, Romulus . Name and attributes File Roman Venus MBA Lyon L83.jpg thumb left 150px Bronze figurine of VenusVenus has been described as perhaps the most original creation of the Roman pantheon , ref Schilling ... Aphrodite . ref Eden, p. 458ff. Eden is discussing possible associations between the Venus ... an aphrodisiac. ref Venus embodies sex , beauty, enticement, seduction and persuasive female charm ... language Latin noun venus sexual love and sexual desire , from which it derives. ref Charlton T. Lewis ... more details
unreferenced date January 2009 Infobox Mazinger Mecha name Venus A katakana A image Image Venus A.jpg 250px creator Go Nagai weapons Missiles, rays, finger missiles, Venus Scrander construction Chogokin New Z New Super Alloy Z energy source Photonic Energy nihongo Venus A A By nasu su is a female mecha from the Great Mazinger anime and manga series, created by Go Nagai . She plays the traditional role of the lady robot that helps the mazinger robot fight the enemy. She was named after VenusmythologyVenus , the Roman goddess of love and beauty. History The robot was created by Dr. Kenzo ... too strong for Mazinger Z , Great Mazinger enters the scene and Venus is his companion in battle, together with Boss Borot . Despite the improvement Venus represents compared to Aphrodite A and Diana ... Venus mazinkaiser1.jpg left thumb The modified version of Venus from Mazinkaiser. She is also featured ... one piloted by Jun is more similar to the classic one. The first Mazinkaiser Venus is infected with a virus ..., Venus operates without pilot and has several snakes coming out of her head, but instead ... can t be turned back to her former self. The second Venus, more similar to the classical one, appears ... the Warrior Beasts and General Ardias , but is defeated and torn to pieces by him. Venus A also appears ... her Mazinkaiser and Mazinger Angels versions. Clr Pilot The pilot of Venus is Jun Hono , an orphan ... thanks to the Queen Star, a flying vehicle that connects to Venus through the back of her head. Clr Weapons Venus is substantially more powerful than either Aphrodite or Diana, though her power could ... being made of a special alloy, Venus has the following characteristics Breast missiles Photon beams, like Mazinger s ones Venus Scrander similar to Mazinger s, it was a separate machine that could be attached to Venus body and allowed her to fly Finger missiles ability to use Thunder Break with her ... USE of Venus A.jpg see image description page at http en.wikipedia.org wiki Image Venus A.jpg for rationale ... more details
7 neon trace carbonyl sulfide trace hydrogen chloride trace hydrogen fluoride Venus is the second planet from the Sun , orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. ref name nasa venus The planet is named after VenusmythologyVenus , the Roman mythology Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon ...About the planet pp move indef pp semi indef Infobox planet name Venus symbol File Venus symbol.svg 25px ... of Venus image File Venus real.jpg 250px alt Venus in approximately true color, a nearly uniform pale ..., http www.planetary.org blog article 00002105 Venus Looks More Boring than You Think It Does ... quarters illuminated. Almost no variation or detail can be seen in the clouds. Venus Licensing conditions Image processing by R. Nunes http www.astrosurf.com nunes caption Venus in true color . The surface ... 224.700 69 day 0.615 197 0 julian year astronomy yr 1.92 Venus solar day synodic ... K ref name nssdc ref name nasa venus ref name compare temp name2 Celsius mean temp 2 460 ... enough to cast shadows. Because Venus is an inferior planet from Earth , it never appears to venture far from the Sun its Elongation astronomy elongation reaches a maximum of 47.8 . Venus reaches ... known as the Morning Star or Evening Star. Venus is classified as a terrestrial planet and it is sometimes called Earth s sister planet due to the similar size, gravity, and bulk composition. Venus is covered ... from being seen from space in visible light . Venus has the densest atmosphere of all the terrestrial ... s surface is 92 times that of the Earth. Venus has no carbon cycle to lock carbon back into rocks and surface features, nor does it seem to have any organic life to absorb it in biomass. Venus ... on Venus suggested by Galileo Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer data journal Journal of Geophysical ... in the wind from the Sun publisher ESA Venus Express url http www.esa.int SPECIALS Venus Express SEM0G373R8F 0.html accessdate 2008 07 12 ref Venus s surface is a dry desertscape with many slab like ... more details
Otheruses Venus disambiguation VENUS http venus.uvic.ca Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea is a cabled sea floor observatory operated out of the University of Victoria , British Columbia , Canada . The VENUS cabled ocean observatory is designed to provide new ways of studying the ocean. Since its launch in 2006, VENUS has enabled scientists to run and monitor various ocean experiments out of the convenience of their desktops. The aim of VENUS is to study coastal oceans in two sites near Victoria and Vancouver , British Columbia. The first site of VENUS seafloor network, operational since February 2006, is located in Saanich Inlet at 100m. The second site is located in the deeper waters of the Strait of Georgia and links instrument arrays deployed at depths varying from 100 to 300 meters. VENUS uses Internet, telecommunication technology, and a network of about 50 kilometers of fiber optic cables at a maximum depth of 300 meters to create a permanent link to cameras and other monitoring instruments on the seafloor. ref Toronto Star. 24, May 2008. Calamai, P. ref The VENUS observatory has scores of sensors that measure such parameters as temperature, salinity, and pressure of the water 24 hours a day ref New Scientist . 21 June 2008 pg 39 41. Reichert, C. ref . The seafloor instruments provide oceanographers, marine biologists, and geologists with real time ocean data. The VENUS ..., whereas the VENUS observatory can be like a continuous film, which will allow more reliable long ... and the public through the VENUS website. The goal of the project is to not only provide valuable ... governments of Canada, as well as private industry. VENUS is designed to provide continuous observations for 20 25 years. See also NEPTUNE Canada, a sister project to VENUS, also operated out of the University ... Reflist External links http www.venus.uvic.ca VENUS official website http www.stccmop.org Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction official website DEFAULTSORT Venus Category Pacific Ocean ... more details
Mergefrom Venus Genetrix sculpture date May 2010 Venus Genetrix may be An Venusmythology Epithets epithet of the goddess VenusmythologyVenusVenus Genetrix sculpture , the name for a type of sculptural depiction of the goddess thought to represent her under this epithet. disambig sh Venus Genetrix ... more details
The Birth of Venus may refer to the birth of the mythological goddess VenusmythologyVenus . Other uses include In paintings , the term the birth of Venus has often been interchanged with Venus Anadyomene . For examples of this theme, see The Birth of Venus Botticelli The Birth of Venus Botticelli The Birth of Venus Bouguereau The Birth of Venus Bouguereau The Birth of Venus Cabanel The Birth of Venus Cabanel The Birth of Venus , a painting by Amaury Duval 1808 1885 Amaury Duval In music La naissance de V nus , a choral work by Gabriel Faur In literature The Birth of Venus novel The Birth of Venus novel , a novel by Sarah Dunant See also Aphrodite Birth the birth of Aphrodite disambig br Ganedigezh Gwener cs Zrozen Venu e fr La Naissance de V nus hr Ro enje Venere ka ru sh Ro enje Venere tr Ven s n Do u u ... more details
Hatnote For other uses, see Mythology disambiguation , and Myth disambiguation . pp move indef File Gustave ... of Prometheus Bound , Prometheus Unbound and Prometheus Pyrphoros The term mythology can ... Britannica ref As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, ref name Littleton, p. 32 whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ... ref Nature of myths Mythology Typical characteristics The main characters in myths are usually gods ... that, just as biography is about chaps , so mythology is about gods. ref As sacred stories ... under any circumstances. ref Campbell, p. 22 23 ref The study of mythology a historical overview see also Comparative mythology Historically, the important approaches to the study of mythology have ... mythology revived in the Renaissance , with early works on mythography appearing in the 16th century ... ref Joseph Campbell believed that there were two different orders of mythology myths that are metaphorical .... Comparative mythology Main Comparative mythology File 10,000 BEF 1929.jpg thumb 200px Old Belgium Belgian banknote , depicting Ceres Roman mythology Ceres , Neptune mythology Neptune and caduceus . Comparative mythology is the systematic comparison of myths from different cultures. ref name Littleton ... about mythology. ref name Northup, p. 8 Northup, p. 8 ref One exception to this modern trend is Joseph ... the same underlying pattern. This theory of a monomyth is out of favor with the mainstream study of mythology ... of the Titans and Immortals 2011 film Immortals continue the trend of mining traditional mythology ... society. See also General refbegin 3 Archetypal literary criticism Artificial mythology Creation myth Deluge myth Fairy Geomythology Legendary creature LGBT themes in mythology Mytheme Mythical place Mythography Portal Mythology National myth Origin of death myth refend Mythological archetypes refbegin ... mythology Christian mythology Hindu mythology Islamic mythology Jesus Christ in comparative mythology ... more details
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Venus , after VenusmythologyVenus , the goddess of love in Roman mythology HMS Venus 1758 6 was a 36 gun fifth rate launched in 1758. She was reduced to 32 guns in 1792 and renamed HMS Heroine in 1809. She was sold in 1828. HMS Venus 1807 6 was a 36 gun fifth rate captured from the Danish in 1807. She was used for harbour service from 1809 and was sold in 1815. HMS Venus 1820 6 was a 46 gun fifth rate launched in 1820. She was lent to the The Marine Society Marine Society between 1848 and 1862 as a training ship and was sold in 1864. HMS Venus 1895 6 was an Eclipse class cruiser Eclipse class protected cruiser launched in 1895 and sold in 1921. HMS Venus R50 6 was a U and V class destroyer V class destroyer launched in 1943. She was converted into a frigate between 1951 and 1952, and was sold in 1972. Shipindex DEFAULTSORT Venus, Hms Category Royal Navy ship names fi HMS Venus ... more details
Wiktionary venusVenus TOCright Venus is the second closest planet to the Sun. Venus may also refer to Venusmythology , the Roman goddess of love, in Greek mythology known as Aphrodite People Venus Lacy born 1967 , American former Olympic and professional basketball player Venus Raj born 1988 , Miss Philippines Universe 2010 and 4th runner up at Miss Universe 2010 Venus Ramey born 1924 , Miss America in 1944 Venus Terzo born 1967 , actress Venus Williams born 1980 , professional tennis player Mark Venus born 1967 , English football coach and former player Venus, an alias for pornographic actress Angelica Costello Places Venus, Florida , an unincorporated community in the United States Venus, Texas , a town in the United States Venus, Romania , a resort Venus Bay, South Australia , a town and a bay Venus Bay, Victoria , Australia Venus Bay, Auckland Islands , New Zealand Venus Glacier , Alexander Island, Antarctica Science Venus genus Venus genus , a genus of clams in the bivalve mollusc family Veneridae VENUS Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea , an oceanographic observatory near Victoria, B.C., Canada Venus, a Yellow fluorescent protein Yellow Fluorescent Protein YFP derivative Arts and entertainment Paintings and sculptures Venus mural Venus mural , ten story high painting by New York artist Knox Martin Venus de Milo , an ancient Greek statue Venus of Mierlo , prehistoric engraving Venus of Willendorf , prehistoric statuette Venus figurines , group of prehistoric objects Films Venus film Venus film , 2006 movie starring Peter O Toole Music Venus band , a Belgian pop group V nus , a Brazilian heavy metal group Venus Belgian band V nus , a 2008 album by Sheryfa Luna Venus , the first full length album from Toledo, Ohio rock group We Are the Fury Venus, the Bringer of Peace , from Gustav Holst s The Planets Venus Frankie Avalon song Venus Frankie Avalon song Venus Low song Venus Low song Venus Shocking Blue song Venus Shocking Blue song Venus Tackey and Tsubasa ... more details
Berenice Venus or The Benghazi Venus is an ancient Cyrenaica Cyrenaican Greek marble statue of the goddess of sexuality and erotic love VenusmythologyVenus 150 100 BC . It was found in Benghazi , Libya . which may have once marked the location of the legendary Lake Tritonis . ref http www.upenn.edu gazette 0503 museum2.html The Benghazi Venus ref It is currently located in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . References reflist External links http www.museum.upenn.edu Greek World index.html Marble Statuette of Aphrodite sculpture stub Category History of Benghazi Category Ancient Greek sculptures Category Ptolemaic Kingdom Category Venus Anadyomenes Category Hellenistic sculpture ar ... more details
italictitle Taxobox name Venus clam fossil range fossil range Oligocene Recent image Venus affinis.jpg image caption Venus affinis regnum Animal ia phylum Mollusca classis Bivalvia subclassis Pteriomorphia ordo Veneroida familia Veneridae genus Venus genus authority Carl Linnaeus Linnaeus , 1758 subdivision ranks Species subdivision See text. Venus is a genus of small to large saltwater clam s in the family Veneridae , which is sometimes known as the Venus clams and their relatives. These are marine bivalve mollusc s. The genus Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love, VenusmythologyVenus . The common name s of clams in this genus often include the word Venus. However, there are also some bivalves that are still called Venus clams because they used to be in the genus Venus , even though ... formerly in the genus Venus . The family Veneridae contains over four hundred known species, many of which are attractive and popular with shell collectors. A few species that still have venus as part of their common name, but which are no longer in the genus Venus are Sunray venus, Macrocallista nimbosa small Lightfoot small Cross barred venus, Chione cancellata small Linnaeus small Lady in waiting venus, Chione intapurpurea small Conrad small Imperial venus, Chione latilirata small Conrad small Grey pygmy venus, Chione grus small Holmes small Striped venus clam, Chamelea gallina small Linnaeus ... and rectangular. Characteristically venus clams possess a porcelain like inner shell layer, a complex ... small food particles. Species File Venus declivis 001.jpg thumb Venus declivis The genus Venus contains ... title Venus Linnaeus, 1758 id 138648 accessdate February 14, 2012 ref Venus albina small G. B. Sowerby II, 1853 small Venus casina small Linnaeus, 1758 small Venus cassinaeformis small Yokoyama, 1926 small Venus chevreuxi small Dautzenberg, 1891 small Venus crebrisulca small Lamarck, 1818 small Venus declivis small G. B. Sowerby II, 1853 small Venus lyra small Hanley, 1845 small Venus nux small ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2011 Image Venus symbol.svg 100px thumb right Venus symbol Image Woman power emblem.svg 100px thumb right Symbol of feminism based on Venus symbol The Venus symbol is a depiction of a circle with a small Cross symbol cross below it. The symbol is historically associated with the Roman goddess VenusmythologyVenus or the Greek goddess Aphrodite . It has a Unicode designation of U 2640, and is used in various media to represent things associated in some way with the mythological character, including The female sex The planet Venus The chemical element copper Feminism in philosophy and sociology The female connector in a pair of mating connectors or fasteners It is also believed by some to represent a hand mirror , with the top half of the symbol representing the actual mirror, and the bottom half representing the handle of the mirror. See also Classical planets in Western alchemy Mars symbol Gender symbol The ankh , an Egyptian hieroglyph resembling the Venus symbol DEFAULTSORT Venus Symbol Category Roman mythology Category Symbols Category Alchemy cs de Venussymbol fa fr ko it nl ja no oc pl pt ru sk Venu a symbol fi Venus symboli sv Venussymbol the symbol represents a chastity belt because women are portrayed as virtuous tr Ven s sembol zh ... more details
File Zoffani, Johann Charles Towneley in his Sculpture Gallery 1782.jpg thumb 200px The Townley Venus right, on a puteal at Townley s house The Townley Venus is a 2.14 m 7 ft high 1st or 2nd century AD ancient Rome Roman sculpture in Proconnesian marble of the goddess VenusmythologyVenus , from the collection of Charles Towneley . It was bought by him from the dealer Gavin Hamilton artist Gavin Hamilton , who excavated it at Ostia Antica Ostia in 1775. He shipped it to England in two pieces it was already in these pieces when found to get it past the Papal antiquaries customs checks. Adapted from a lost Greek original of the 4th century BC, the goddess is half draped, with her torso nude. The arms were restored in the 18th century and the statue was set in another plinth, thereby changing the original pose and viewpoint. If the restoration is correct, her arms are in a pose reminiscent of the Venus of Capua or Venus de Milo , and like them she may have held a mirror. It is now in the British Museum as Registration Number 1805,0703.15 and Sculpture 1574, and is usually on display in Room 84, although it went on tour to the 2007 Praxiteles exhibition at the Louvre . See also Townley Vase Category Venus types Category Townley collection Venus Category Greek and Roman objects in the British Museum sculpture stub fr V nus de Townley ... more details
Venus Castina was a minor epithet of the Roman goddess VenusmythologyVenus in this form, she was associated with the yearnings of feminine souls locked up in male bodies. ref cite book title Venus Castina Famous Female Impersonators, Celestial and Human publisher Bonanza Books year 1956 last Bulliet first Clarence Joseph ref ref cite journal author Roberta Perkins title Geldings for the Gods url http www.gendercentre.org.au 4article3.htm accessdate 2008 08 10 journal Polare date 1994 ref Depictions of worshipers of Venus Castina display both men and women as devotees some portraits include male worshipers dressed in female attire. Herodotus wrote that Venus Castina cursed a group of Scythian s who pillaged Venus temple at Ascelon by turning them into women blockquote The Scythians who plundered the temple were punished by the goddess with the female sickness, which still attaches to their posterity. They themselves confess that they are afflicted with the disease for this reason, and travelers who visit Scythia can see what sort of a disease it is. Those who suffer from it are called Enarees. &mdash The Histories , book I, chapter 105. Herodotus. blockquote References references External links http www.everything2.com index.pl?node id 1015007 Venus Castina Everything2.com Category LGBT history prior to the 19th century Category Roman goddesses Category Transgender topics and religion ... more details
File Ishtar star symbol.svg thumb right The Star of Venus. File Star and Crescent.svg thumb right The Islamic Star and Crescent bearing a five pointed version of the Star of Venus. Image Flag of Iraq 1959 1963.svg thumb right The flag of Iraq from 1959 1963, bearing the Star of Venus. File Chaldean Flag.svg thumb right A flag of the Chaldean people, bearing the Star of Venus. The Star of Venus also called the Star of Ishtar is an ancient symbol originating in Iraq used as early as 2000 BCE that represents the planet Venus , historically to represent the Babylonia Babylonian and Assyria Assyrian Goddess Ishtar that are connected with Venus, as well as being historically used by Phoenicia Phoenician culture to represent Venus and the goddess Astarte a counterpart of Ishtar . ref Hugo Gressmann, Julian Obermann. The tower of Babel . Jewish Institute of Religion Press, 1928. Pp. 81. ref ref name Liungman Carl G. Liungman. Symbols Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms . Liding , Sweden HME Publishing, 2004. Pp. 228. ref The symbol has been commonly represented as an eight pointed star as it was discovered to be presented as such on a Babylonian seal approximately dated to 800 BCE. ref name Liungman However in modern times in Islam Islamic societies it has been represented by a five pointed star that is used alongside a Lunar phase crescent moon . ref name Liungman References Reflist Category Mesopotamian mythology Category Religious symbols ... more details
to as Venus figurines , although they pre date the mythological figure of VenusmythologyVenus by millennia ...Infobox Artifact name Venus of Willendorf image Image Venus von Willendorf 01.jpg 200px material Oolite ... Willendorf , by Josef Szombathy location Naturhistorisches Museum , Vienna , Austria The Venus of Willendorf ... from an Oolite oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre . The Venus .... http witcombe.sbc.edu willendorf Venus of Willendorf . Retrieved on January 18, 2008. ref Several ... Venus of Willendorf Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, 2003. ref Very little is known about its origin, method of creation, or cultural significance. The Venus of Willendorf was recovered in a site ... Venus 1468.jpg thumb left 180px Venus of Willendorf The purpose of the carving is the subject ... of Venus, is now controversial. According to Christopher Witcombe, the ironic identification of these figurines as Venus pleasantly satisfied certain assumptions at the time about the primitive, about ..., April., 1996. pp. 227 275. ref See also Venus of Hohle Fels Venus of Doln V stonice References reflist External links commons Venus of Willendorf http witcombe.sbc.edu willendorf Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Women in Prehistory Venus of Willendorf . http donsmaps.com willendorf.html Venus figures from the Stone Age The Venus of Willendorf http www.flickr.com photos 47300510 N02 Comparison of Willendorf Venus and Young Amanita The Invisible Sex Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory ... 03 21 cavewoman http www.nicky510.com comic i know art when i see it A cartoon examination of the Venus ... DEFAULTSORT Venus Of Willendorf Category Venus figurines Willendorf Category 1908 in Austria Category ... bar Venus fu Wilndoaf bs Venera iz Willendorfa br Gwener Willendorf ca Venus de Willendorf cs Willendorfsk venu e da Venus fra Willendorf de Venus von Willendorf et Willendorfi Venus es Venus de Willendorf eo Venuso de Willendorf fa fr V nus de Willendorf gl Venus ... more details
Image RokebyVenus.jpg right thumb 300px An illustration of the Venus Effect from Diego Vel zquez Vel zquez s Rokeby Venus . The Venus effect is a phenomenon in the perception psychology of perception , named after various paintings of VenusmythologyVenus gazing into a mirror , such as Diego Vel zquez Diego Vel zquez s Rokeby Venus , Titian s Venus with a Mirror , and Paolo Veronese Veronese s Venus with a mirror . Viewers of such paintings assume that Venus is admiring her own reflection in the mirror however, since the viewer sees her face in the mirror, Venus is actually looking at the reflection of the painter. ref cite journal last Bertamini first M authorlink coauthors Latto, R. Spooner, A. year 2003 title The Venus effect people s understanding of mirror reflections in paintings journal Perception journal Perception volume 32 pages 593 599 doi 10.1068 p3418 url http www.liv.ac.uk marcob Publications BLS2003.pdf format pdf accessdate 2007 03 22 laysummary http www.liv.ac.uk VP venus.html laydate 2005 03 22 pmid 12854645 issue 5 ref This psychological effect is often used in the Cinematography cinema , where an actor will be shown apparently looking at himself or herself in the mirror. What viewers see is different from what the actor sees, because the camera is not right behind ... in the mirror for the camera. Although the name of the effect refers to a woman, Venus, the effect .... Bertamini et al. 2010 conducted additional studies and confirmed that the Venus effect also ... title The Venus Effect in Real Life and in Photographs journal Attention Perception & Psychophysics ... Gallery title footer width 220 height 270 lines 3 File Titian Venus Mirror furs .jpg Titian s Venus with a mirror File Rubens Venus at a Mirror c1615.jpg Peter Paul Rubens Venus at the Mirror , c. 1614 15. As with Vel zquez s Venus, the goddess s reflected image does not match that portion of her ... News article about the research DEFAULTSORT Venus Effect Category Film techniques Category Artistic ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Tizian 102.jpg image size 500px title Venus of Urbino artist Titian year start date 1538 type Oil painting Oil on canvas height 119 width 165 city Florence museum Uffizi The Venus of Urbino is a 1538 oil painting by the Italian master Titian . It depicts a nude young woman, identified with the goddess VenusmythologyVenus , reclining on a couch or bed in the sumptuous surroundings of a Renaissance palace. It hangs in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence . The figure s pose is based on Giorgione s Sleeping Venus Giorgione Sleeping Venus c. 1510 , which Titian completed. In this depiction, Titian has domesticated Venus by moving her to an indoor setting, engaging her ... trappings Venus displays none of the attributes of the goddess she is supposed to represent the painting is unapologetically erotic. The frankness of Venus s expression is often noted she stares straight ..., apparently in search of Venus s clothes. Curiously, given its overtly erotic content, the painting ... in 1997 s Sex, Space, and Social History in Titian s Venus of Urbino . Titian contrasts the straight lines of the architecture with the curves of the female form, and the screen behind Venus bisects ... travelogue A Tramp Abroad , Mark Twain called the Venus of Urbino the foulest, the vilest ... too strong for any place but a public art gallery . Venus of Urbino inspired douard Manet s 1863 Olympia painting Olympia in which the figure of Venus is replaced with the model Victorine Meurent ... arth arth213 Titian Venus urbino.html Titian s Venus of Urbino critical review of the painting Titian DEFAULTSORT Venus Of Urbino Category 1538 paintings Category Titian paintings Category Collections of the Uffizi Category Paintings of Venus Category Erotic art br Gwener Urbino bg da Venus fra Urbino de Venus von Urbino es Venus de Urbino fr V nus d Urbin gl Venus de Urbino it Venere di Urbino he la Venus Urbinas hu Urbin i V nusz nl Venus van Urbino ja ... more details
File Dimples of Venus while seated with arrows .jpg thumb A sitting woman with dimples of Venus. Two arrows are pointing at both dimples. File Gustave Courbet The Bathers.jpg thumb right Exemplified in a painting by Gustave Courbet The dimples of Venus also known as back dimples , or butt dimples are sagittal ly symmetrical indentations sometimes visible on the human lower Human back back , just Anatomical terms of location Usage in human anatomy superior to the gluteal cleft . They are directly Anatomical terms of location Other directional terms superficial to the two sacroiliac joint s, the sites where the sacrum attaches to the ilium bone ilium of the pelvis . The term dimples of Venus , while informal, is a historically accepted name within the medical profession for the superficial topography of the sacroiliac joints. The Latin name is fossae lumbales laterales lateral lumbar indentations . These indentations are created by a short ligament stretching between the posterior superior iliac spine and the skin. They are thought to be genetic. There are other deep to superficial skin ligaments, such as Cooper s ligaments , which are present in the breast and are found between the pectoralis major fascia and the skin. There is another use for the term Dimple of Venus in surgical anatomy. These are two symmetrical indentations on the posterior aspect of sacrum which contain a venous channel too. They are used as a landmark for finding the superior articular facets of the sacrum as a guide to place sacral pedicle screws in spine surgery. ref Youmans Neurological Surgery, 5th edition, 2004 ref They are sometimes believed to be a mark of beauty , alluding to the origin of their name VenusmythologyVenus was the Roman Goddess of beauty . See also Rhombus of Michaelis Venus Kallipygos Dimples References reflist DEFAULTSORT Dimples Of Venus Category Back anatomy Category Human appearance de Michaelis Raute is Lendarkoppar km pl Czworobok Michaelisa ... more details
The Barberini Venus , Thomas Jenkins antiquary Jenkins Venus ref First coined by Johann Joachim Winckelmann in a letter, mentioned by Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 1900 1981, p. 326, note. ref or Weddell Venus , is a copy from the Aphrodite of Cnidus , along the lines of the Venus de Medici . Its torso is a Hadrianic copy in Parian marble of the same type as the Venus de Medici, with 18th century restorations. 18th century The sculpture of VenusmythologyVenus was previously in the Barberini collection, during which time its left leg and the support were added. ref It was inventoried in Palazzo Barberini in 1738. ref The Barberini Venus was purchased in 1763 by Gavin Hamilton artist Gavin Hamilton , a Scottish connoisseur in Rome who acted as guide to the British milordi . It was later bought by Thomas Jenkins antiquary Thomas Jenkins , the English antiquities dealer and banker to the English community established in Rome, and then from him in the spring of 1765 by William Weddell of Newby Hall , Yorkshire, who was on the Grand Tour . The undisclosed sum for which it changed hands this third time was reputedly the most ever paid for an antiquity in the eighteenth century. A customs declaration, intended to speed its export from the papal dominions, details the extensive restorations it had undergone in Jenkins care .... Perhaps as a result, the hair style of the Weddell Venus is unlike that on the other versions ... rotunda in which the Weddell Venus had a prominent niche architecture niche , flanked by rectangular ... al Thani , cousin of the Emir of Qatar , where the Weddell Venus currently resides. A laser made Carrara ... Arts Minister Places Temporary Export Bar On A Roman Marble Statue Of Venus 2003. http www.telegraph.co.uk ... Venus for Newby Hall Sculpture stub Category Cnidian Venuses Category Capitoline Venuses Category Barberini collection Venus Category Roman copies of 4th century BC Greek sculptures br Venus ... more details
, in Praxiteles s original. Principal example The Capitoline Venus is a slightly over lifesize ref 1.93 m 6 ft. 3 in. . ref marble statue of VenusmythologyVenus . It is an Antonine copy of a late ...File Capitoline Venus Musei Capitolini MC0409.jpg thumb The Capitoline Venus Capitoline Museums . The Capitoline Venus is a type of statue of VenusmythologyVenus , specifically one of several Venus Pudica modest Venus types others include the Venus de Medici type , of which several examples exist. The type ultimately derives from the Aphrodite of Cnidus . The Capitoline Venus and her variants are recognisable from the position of the arms&mdash standing after a bath, Venus begins to cover her breasts ... of its own&mdash called the cabinet of Venus &mdash on the ground floor of the Palazzo Nuovo ... Museum, Rome The Capitoline Venus ref File Venus pudica Massimo.jpg thumb upright Aphrodite of Menophantos a Venus Pudica signed by Menophantos, 1st century BCE, found at San Gregorio al Celio, Rome Museo Nazionale Romano Its reputation vis a vis the Venus de Medici in Florence grew only slowly ... began to undermine the Florentine Venus. It was triumphantly removed to Paris by Napoleon under ... left upright The Campo Iemini Venus British Museum Other types Main Aphrodite of Menophantos The Aphrodite ... 2152.html William Smith, , A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , 1870 vol. II.1044. ref main Campo Iemini Venus The Campo Iemini Venus , another sculpture of the same model, was unearthed ... . At the time of its discovery the English in particular found it superior to the Capitoline Venus ... sold it in 1917 Hope s Venus is conserved at the Leeds Art Gallery Hugh Honour, Canova s Statues of Venus ... Venus Theoi Project. Retrieved on May 13, 2008. ref as well as the similar Venus Tauride . ref Atsma, Aaron. http www.theoi.com Gallery S10.10.html Tauride Venus . Theoi Project. Retrieved on May ... 113&author Aphrodite Tauride Venus . State Hermitage Museum. Retrieved on May 13, 2008. ref clear ... more details
program at Arles was executed in Italy, perhaps by Greek artisans. VenusmythologyVenus ...Image Venus of Arles Louvre Ma439 n01.jpg thumb 180px left The Venus of Arles. Image Venus of Arles Louvre Ma439 n04.jpg thumb 200px right Restored surface on the Praxitelean figure by Fran ois Girardon Image VdArestaur.jpg thumb left 180px Restorations indicated in blue The Venus of Arles is a convert 1.94 m ft adj mid high sculpture of VenusmythologyVenus at the Mus e du Louvre . ref http www.theoi.com Gallery S10.5.html Theoi Project ref It is in Hymettus Hymettus marble and dates to the end of the 1st century BC. It may be a copy of the Aphrodite of Thespiae by Praxiteles , ordered by the courtesan Phryne . ref The attribution, as a youthful work of Praxiteles, was advanced by Adolf Furtw ngler , Meisterwerke der Griechischen Plastik Berlin , 1893. ref In the 2nd century AD, Pausanias geographer Pausanias mentioned the existence at Thespiae in Boeotia central Greece of a group made up of Cupid, Phryne and Aphrodite. ref Pausanias, Description of Greece IX.27.5. ref The Praxitelean style may be detected in the head s resemblance to that of the Cnidian Aphrodite , a work of Praxiteles known through copies. In a tentative attempt to reconstruct his career, the original Aphrodite of Thespiae would be a work from his youth in the 360s BC , if we choose to believe that this partially draped female frequently repeated in the Hellenistic era the Venus de Milo , for example is a prelude ... cartelen visite?srv car not frame&idNotice 20232 Louvre catalogue ref The Venus of Arles was discovered ... 390 p. 387f . ref The Venus was found in 1651, by workmen who were digging a well. The head appeared ... a Venus, added some attributes the apple in the right hand, as won in the Judgement of Paris and the mirror ... . References reflist 2 Commons category Venus of Arles DEFAULTSORT Venus Of Arles Category Venus types ... Arle es Venus de Arl s fr V nus d Arles no Venus fra Arles ru ... more details
File Aphrodite Anadyomene from Pompeii cropped.jpg thumb 300px A Pompeii Pompeian mural of Venus Anadyomene Venus Anadyomene ref Ancient Greek , anadyomen , meaning rising up Aphrodite Anadyomene is preferred by some writers, for consistency. ref Venus Rising From the Sea ... mythology Aphrodite was born fully adult from the sea, which perpetually renewed her virginity ... Another of Venus emerging from the sea, dedicated by the late Augustus of blessed memory in the shrine ... Graecis tantopere dum laudatur, aevis victa, sed inlustrata. ref The image of Venus Anadyomene ... and British Library Royal Ms 19, C.1. ref two images of Venus among constellations illustrating ... , in which Venus is represented nude, in the sea This extraordinary conservatism may perhaps be explained ... elsewhere. Image Anadyomene.jpg thumb left Venus Anadyomene Titian Venus Anadyomene , by Titian , ca ... di Venere Google Art Project.jpg thumb 300px The Birth of Venus Botticelli The Birth of Venus ca ... to emulate Apelles, and if possible to outdo him, Venus Anadyomene was taken up again in the 15th century besides Botticelli s famous Birth of Venus Botticelli Birth of Venus Uffizi Gallery , Florence , another early Venus Anadyomene is the bas relief by Antonio Lombardo sculptor Antonio Lombardo from Wilton House Victoria and Albert Museum , London . Titian s Venus Anadyomene Titian Venus Anadyomene ... at the National Gallery of Scotland , Edinburgh . Venus Anadyomene offered a natural subject ... drips from Venus hair, modelled by a close follower of Giambologna , late sixteenth century. Rococo ... Ingres Venus Anadyomene , completed after many years in 1848, is one of the painter s most celebrated ... of Venus 1879 .jpg thumb left The Birth of Venus Bouguereau The Birth of Venus , by William Adolphe Bouguereau , 1879 Mus e d Orsay , Paris . Alexandre Cabanel painting The Birth of Venus Cabanel The Birth of Venus , reworking the then recently discovered Pompeii fresco, was shown at the Salon Paris ... more details
Image Wien NHM Venus von Willendorf.jpg thumb 250px center Venus of Willendorf center Venus figurines ... from the Aurignacian , including the Venus of Hohle Fels , discovered in 2008, carbon dated to at least 35,000 years ago, and late examples of the Magdalenian , such as the Venus of Monruz , aged ... Image Venus of Brassempouy.jpg thumb left 250px center The Venus of Brassempouy center The first ... his find the V nus impudique , a knowing contrast to the modest Venus Pudica Hellenistic type, the most famous of which is the Medici Venus . The Magdalenian Venus from Laugerie Basse is headless ... and recognised was the Venus of Brassempouy , found by douard Piette in 1894 but not originally labelled as a Venus . Four years later, Salomon Reinach published a group of steatite figurines from the caves of Balzi Rossi. The famous Venus of Willendorf was excavated in 1908 in a loess deposit in the Danube ... to the plains of Siberia . They are collectively described as Venus figurines in reference to the Roman mythology Roman goddess of beauty, Venus , since the prehistory prehistorians of the early 20th century assumed they represented an ancient ideal of beauty. Early discourse on Venus figurines ... Baartman Saartjie Baartman , the Hottentot Venus exhibited as a living ethnographic curiosity ... a 6 cm figurine woman carved from a mammoth s tusk, the Venus of Hohle Fels , dated to at least ... Fels cave, represents the typical features of Venus figurines, including the swollen belly, wide set ... ref ref name Cressey2009 Cite journal date 13 May 2009 author Cressey, Daniel title Ancient Venus ... postscript None ref Description Image Vestonicka venuse edit.jpg thumb left 200px Venus of Dolni Vestonice The majority of the Venus figurines appear to be depictions of females that follow certain ... 2008 doi 10.1537 ase.060317 url http www.jstage.jst.go.jp article ase 116 1 116 87 html ref The Venus of Willendorf and the Venus of Laussel bear traces of having been externally covered in red ochre ... more details
Image Colonna Venus front.jpg thumb The Colonna Venus The Colonna Venus is a Roman marble copy of the lost Aphrodite of Cnidus by Praxiteles , conserved in the Vatican Museums Museo Pio Clementino as a part of the Vatican Museums collections. It is now the best known and perhaps most faithful Roman copy of Praxiteles original. The Colonna VenusmythologyVenus is one of four marble Venuses presented in 1783 to Pope Pius VI by Colonna Don Filippo Giuseppe Colonna 1760 1818 ref http www.sardimpex.com colonna COLONNA02.htm L1.Don Filippo III Giuseppe Colonna, principe di Paliano and hereditary Gran Connestabile of Kingdom of Naples Naples see Haskell and Penny 1981 331, as the Conestabile Colonna . ref this, the best of them, was published in Ennio Quirino Visconti s catalogue of the Vatican Museums Museo Pio Clementino , ref Visconti, Museo Pio Clementino , vol. 1, plate XI. ref where it was identified for the first time as a copy of the Cnidian Venus. Immediately it eclipsed the somewhat flaccid variant of the same model that, as the Belvedere Venus , had long been in the Vatican collections. ref The Vatican Venus was first referred to in a document of 1536, as a recent gift to the Pope Pope Paul III Paul III Farnese from the Governor of Rome. Though provided with stucco drapery, it was removed from public view by Pope Gregory XIV , nemico di ogni nudit dell arte and placed in storage, all access to it forbidden it remains in storage at the Vatican Museums today. Francis Haskell and Nicolas Penny, Taste and the Antique The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 1900 1981 , cat. no. 90, pp 330 31 . ref During the 19th and early 20th centuries, a prudish tin drape was modestly wrapped ... wiki Cite Cite.php reflist Gallery gallery Image Colonna Venus right side.jpg Colonna Venus right side view Image Knidiska Afrodite, Nordisk familjebok.png The Colonna Venus with its ... Cnidian Venuses Sculpture stub br Venus Colonna ... more details
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