Gender, Legends and Art AfroditeVenus

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Gender, Legends and Art Afrodite-Venus

• Vesa Matteo Piludu

University of Helsinki Department of Art Research
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Aphrodite aus Unteritalien 220-180 v. Chr.
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This is Aphrodite Anadyomene (rising from the
sea) in her sea shell. Terracotta, made in Amisos
(Pontus), late 1st century BC/early 1st century
AD
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Goose-Rider. Athens about 460 BC
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Venus AnadyomenePompei, Casa di Venus, 1st
century AD
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Marble Venus of the Capitoline type.
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Afrodita agachada. Hacia 150 d.C. Museo Nacional
del Prado
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Mars et Vénus, 160-170 après J.-C. Ostia Antica,
réserves du Musée
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Aphrodite
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The Birth of VenusSandro Botticelli, c.
14821486.
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Primavera
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http//www.thais.it/speciali/Primavera/default.htm
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• It ver et Venus, et Veneris praenuntius
  antepennatus graditur, Zephyri vestigia
  propterFlora quibus mater praespargens ante
  viaicuncta coloribis egregiis et odoribus
  opplet.Lucretius
• Spring and Venus go their way, and the winged
  harbinger of Venus steps on before and close on
  Zephyr's footprints mother Flora strews all the
  way before them and covers it over with the
  choicest colours and odours

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Venus and Mars Sandro Botticelli, c. 1483.
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Giorgione 1477-1510 and Tizian 1488-1576
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Tizian Venus of Urbino 1538
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Venere con OrganistaTizian
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Tizian amor sacro e amor profano
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Venus AnadyomeneTiziano Vecellio (Titian)1525
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Tiziano Venere and Adonis
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Agnolo Bronzino Allegory with Venus and Cupid ,
c.1545
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Venus and Cupid
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Birth of VenusFrançois Boucher1750
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Venus Rising the Star - Gérôme
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The Birth of VenusWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau,
1879Oil on canvas
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Venus Anadyomène - Ingres
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The Birth of VenusAlexandre Cabanel1863
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Birth of VenusEugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval 1862
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Venus AnadyomeneThéodore Chasseriau1838
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The Birth of VenusOdilon Redon1912