The Birth of Venus
Brenda Burke
Brenda Burke
The Birth of Venus Aphrodite or Venus to the Romans is thought to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus. Uranus and...
No need for an introduction, you’d know it as one of the most famous, celebrated and digitalized masterpieces of all time. Probably made in the...
Carlotta Chabert, dancer of the first half of the nineteenth century, loved by Count Girolamo Malfatti, had the honor, thanks to the high-ranking client, of...
Also called “the shrine of Venus” for its more than 25 representations of the goddess, including stuccos and frescoes, Palazzo Te in Mantua dedicates 2021...
Venus, the goddess of Love and Beauty, is accidentally wounded by one of her son Cupid´s arrows, which triggers her passion for Adonis. This love...
Diego Gravinese, Rebirth of Venus 2017
Born today…Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, January 27, 1836, Lviv, Ukraine “I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a...
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni’s “Venus Presenting Aeneas with Armour Forged by Vulcan” is the companion piece to “Hercules at the Crossroads”, and is very similar to...
Picture of Aphrodite lying naked in a giant clam shell. Sure, when Aphrodite lies around naked in a giant clam shell she’s a “goddess” but...
The gestures and actions expressed by Venus and Vulcan in this oil on canvas by Gaetano Gandolfi, painted between 1770 and 1775, led to a...