Venus

emotion, Christian imagery, and realism in portraying the human body. See Titian’s Venus of Urbino. A completely naked Venetian courtesan, Angela del Moro, reclines among feathery pillows and vibrant flowers in an elegant Italian palace. She gazes directly at the viewer with a look that makes this work, "the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses", as Mark Twain famously stated. The Venus of Urbino helped to establish the female nude as a genre. This genre, like any, has…

contributed to the decoration the Sistine Chapeland he Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance-era. That work is Birth of Venus. The painting was Venus and Mars and it’s completed around 1485 and the nineteenth-century. The Title of the painting intimidates the two mythological people who had a two-time affair. The Goddess of Love Venus who had unlawful relationship with the God of War Mars and she is still married to lame blacksmith Vulcan, who forged Cupid’s…

Aphrodite of Melos (Venus Di Milo) Vera Feng AP Art History Thursday, October 2, 2014 Today, the famous Hellenistic sculpture of a goddess half-heartedly holding her garment over her hips sits in the Louvre. Although first thought to be carved by Praxiteles, the beloved Aphrodite of Melos (Venus Di Milo), dated ca. 150-125 BCE, is now understood to have been created by Alexandros of Antioch. This beautiful marble sculpture hails from Melos, Greece. Although a large part of this piece’s fame…

Have you heard of “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus”? This is a quote we often hear which metaphors men and women come from different planet. The quote explains why they speak in different languages and think differently. As a result, two sexes cannot understand each other’s ideas and intention, ultimately leading to many conflicts and misunderstandings. Similarly, sociolinguist Deborah Tannen–– also explores the differences in male and female’s communication style in her 1990 published…

A young girl named Sarah Bartman crossed the ocean from her home in South Africa to Europe, unknowingly about her future as the Hot en Tot Venus. The Hot en Tot Venus would become a pin point towards understanding the hyper sexuality of the black female body. In the documentary Sarah Bartman, one of the reasons there was such a fascination with her is because scholarly work had described the African people of a different species. The Black female bodied landed on the boundaries between…

Alexandre Cabanel 's piece The Birth Of Venus,1875, is another depiction of the popular Venus figure.The depiction of Venus by Cabanel shows society’s standard of femininity and ideal beauty which is still a part of our culture and the perception of women as sexual beings. Venus is portrayed as a sexual,delicate,curvy figure who embodies sensuality and appears to be in a erotic, alluring state which entices the viewing eye, as she is the tool of seduction. The ideals of femininity for the…

From the swing of the racket to the way they move across the court, Venus and Serena Williams are both brilliant tennis players. Both sisters are equally successful in their lives outside of tennis, but their careers in the game are very different from each other. Venus Williams was born on June seventeenth, 1980 making her the older sister in the dynamic tennis duo. Her younger sister, Serena, was born on September twenty-sixth, 1981. Both girls were enrolled at Rick Macci’s Tennis Academy…

Venus at Vulcan’s Forge by Francois Boucher is currently located the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. It was completed in 1769 using oil paints on canvas. The scene of this painting comes from Virgi’s The Aeneid, where Venus urges Vulcan to forge weapons for her son to fight against the Greeks. Boucher’s use of color, contrast, balance, and implied lines encapsulates the interaction between the different figures in the piece, which lead to dynamic and enthralling interpretation. There…

William Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1593) and Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander (1958) are seminal poems of the epyllion genre (Carter 136). According to Robert A. Logan, the epyllion—or little epic (Keach xvii)—“can be loosely defined as an Ovidian narrative poem about mythological and human figures in situations of frustrated love, usually unrequited or unfulfilled” (58). Though they were often perceived as “trite” and titillating entertainment, written “with undisguised artifice,…

pieces I had the chance to see that day. The three that caught my eye were Antoine Watteau’s Ceres (Summer) oil on canvas, c. 1717/ 1718, Jean Honoré Fragonard’s Diana and Endymion oil on canvas, c. 1753/1756, and finally François Boucher’s The Bath of Venus, 1751. These painting are not only connected by the same medium, They also contain similar themes of Roman mythology (fantasy), and they all happen to be created during the same period which was Rococo. In addition to fantasy the pieces I…