#crouching venus

[hurglewurm]

doodling a little statue study on the bus back in august... saw her hair and got tired though. inspired by this guy !

[uncleclaudius]

Various copies of one the antiquity's most popular statues - The Crouching Venus, portraying the goddess startled while taking a bath.

Farnese Venus, now in the National Archeological Museum of Naples.

Lely Venus, now in the British museum.

An example now exhibited at Palazzo Altemps, Rome.

A statue from Uffizi, Florence, was part of the Medici collection.

A statue discovered at Hadrian's villa in Tivoli, now in Palazzo Massimo, Rome.

So-called Venus of Vienne, now in the Louvre.

[monkeyslunch]

[eucanthos]

The 'Doidalses Aphrodite' or Bathing Venus

Photo by Federico Pestilli

Crouching Venus, Hadrianic copy of Greek original by Doidalsas, once situated at the Heliocaminus Baths at Villa Adriana, Tivoli, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

Doidalsas or Doidalses was a sculptor from Bithynia active in mid-3rd c. BC and created the votive bronze statue of Bathing Aphrodite, which made him famous (commissioned by the king of Bithynia Nicomedes I (279-255 BC), because he could not acquire Aphrodite of Knidos)

https://www.federicopestilli.com/

https://followinghadrian.com/2014/03/12/art-and-sculptures-from-hadrians-villa-marble-statue-of-a-crouching-venus/

https://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/a/anonymous-painter/the-doidalses-aphrodite-o.html

[mikilavellan]

Oh I'm sorry was a famous and dearly beloved statue of the greco-roman goddess of love and beauty too much for you, tumblr?

IS THIS BETTER

[fancycheliniarts]

This was meant to be a little warmup, and then it seized my brain and galloped away full speed. This line is from Hozier's "NFWMB"

Nothing fucks with my baby Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing

If I was born as a blackthorn tree I'd wanna be felled by you Held by you Fuel the pyre of your enemies

Ain't it warming you, the world gone up in flames? Ain't it the life you, your lighting of the blaze?

[aviel]

Jeff Koons - Gazing Ball (Crouching Venus) (2013)

[thinkingimages]

Crouching Venus