APHRODITE & VENUS

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Aphrodite and Eros (Capitoline Aphrodite)

Roman; Imperial, 2nd century AD

Marble

Former Borghese collection

Musée du Louvre

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Aphrodite holding winged Eros

Cypriot; Classical, Late 4th century BC

Culture: Cypriot

Limestone

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Sarcophagus Panel: The Abduction of Persephone

ca. 190–200 AD

Marble

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The Judgement of Paris

1812

Guillaume Guillon Lethière (1760–1832)

Oil on canvas

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Venus showing Mars her hand wounded by Diomedes

1810

Johann Nepomuk Schaller (1777–1842)

Tyrolean marble

Vienna

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Jupiter, Juno and Venus

1750–1799

Brunelli Carlo

Tempera on panel

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Aphrodite

Greek; 199–100 BCE

Bronze

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Venus Italica

Italian; ca. 1815–1822

Workshop of Antonio Canova

Marble

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Venus (Tinted Venus)

1850

John Gibson RA (1790–1866)

Marble

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Venus and Cupid

1807

José Ginés (1768–1823)

Carrara marble

Museo Nacional del Prado

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Mars and Venus, Allegory of Peace (Mars et Vénus, allégorie sur la Paix)

French; 1770

Louis Jean François Lagrenée (1725–1805)

Oil on canvas

The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan

1827

Alexandre Charles Guillemot (1786–1831)

Oil on canvas

Indianapolis Museum of Art

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Venus Rising from the Sea

1866

Gustave Moreau (1826–1898)

Oil on panel

The Israel Museum

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The Death of Adonis (with Venus, Cupid, and the Three Graces)

Flanders; ca. 1614

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)

Oil on canvas

The Israel Museum

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Venus

1501–1650(?)

Firenze

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Ceiling Painting: The Judgment of Paris

1707–1709

Jan van Dyck

Fresco

Rheinland-Pfalz

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Ceiling Painting: The Apotheosis of Hercules

1715

Oil on canvas

Baden-Württemberg

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