#goddess venus

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𝑨𝒑𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒆 ~ 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 | 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔 🦢

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[mythologypaintings]

The Toilet of Venus

Artist: François Boucher (French, 703–1770)

Date: 1751

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

[mochimogalina]

Acolyte Aria and Venus (more Bug Fables!) 🪲 I really enjoyed these characters and thought they deserved a freaking awesome poster illustration <3

[arttemisiia]

Lady Aphrodite 🐚🫧

Digital Offering🏛️

[blueiscoool]

2,000-Year-Old Roman Bust of Goddess Venus Discovered in Spain

A marble head dating back some 2,000 years has been discovered at a Spanish beach - and it's said to be one of the most significant Roman-era sculptural finds in the region.

The historic find was made during ongoing regeneration work on Alicante's popular Almadraba beach.

Workmen who stumbled across the lump of marble were left amazed when experts were called to the scene, who later revealed the head dates back to the High Imperial Roman period in the first or second century.

The white marble head, which archaeologists say may possibly represent the goddess Venus, is still in near-perfect condition, aside from minor damage to the nose.

Its cultural and historical value is said to be incalculable.

Alicante council describes the bust as 'a Roman head of great artistic quality and in excellent state of preservation', while archaeologists already consider it one of the most substantial finds in Alicante from the Roman era.

Councillor for culture, Nayma Beldjilali, added: 'We could be talking about one of the most important Roman sculpture finds in the history of Alicante and the province.

Regeneration work at La Almadraba beach is currently being put on hold while a full excavation is carried out.

The site has been designated as an archaeological area for over 15 years after the remains of a Roman villa linked to Lucentum was discovered in 2009.

Speaking of the villa, Mr Beldjilali added: 'It must have been the home of some prominent Roman citizen.'

As for the newly-discovered head, which measures 22.22 centimetres high and 19.78 wide, experts believe it could have once been placed on a base in Roman patrician houses - though tests are set to be carried out to confirm this.

José Manuel Pérez Burgos, head of integral heritage, said: 'The bust presents a hairstyle of Hellenistic influence, with wavy hair pulled back with a parting in the middle following the idealised model of representations of divinities such as the Greek Aphrodite or the Roman Venus.'

'The time of Emperor Caesar Augustus, between the year 27 BC and the 19th of the current era, meant a strong expansion of the borders of the Roman Empire and brought the Pax Romana and a time of great cultural effervescence.

'In this context the goddess Venus was considered in the Empire the mother of the Roman people and represented love, beauty and fertility.'

The cultural department added: 'This era was operational between the third century BC and fourth century AD.

'As a result of these works, foundations of houses and rooms belonging to a Roman villa of a maritime nature have been found, abundant remains of ceramics, some of them very well preserved, and coins of the time.'

The beach was scheduled to reopen in time for peak summer season, though this has now been delayed due to the find.

By Jowena Riley and Rita Sobot.

[honorthegods]

"Goddess— pour immortal charm upon my words, and quiet the iron works of war on land and sea. For you alone can offer tranquil peace to the race of mortals. For often Mars, who delights in arms and guides War’s savagery, undone by love’s undying wound, has flung himself—collapsing—in your lap, head tilted gently back, to feast his eager eyes upon your face and taste your honey’d breath. Oh great goddess, seize him in your holy embrace! Squeeze and wrap your sacred body down around him, pour a prayer of peace from your sweet lips. For I can’t write in these times of grave trouble—my mind is anxious and torn..."

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 27–43, translation by Brian Walters. Source: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/428/article/815755/pdf

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Image: Venus Genitrix statue, replica by Carlo Freter, Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California, USA. Photo by Daderot, 2013.

Image license: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_Genitrix_(copy_by_Carlo_Freter)-_Hearst_Castle-_DSC07050.JPG

[m4kr1-au]

New Au Wips for the soul:

A lil cupid au i'm working on for myself he he, Yes Suz is in it and Max- im way too tired to clean his sketch rn-. Ive lowkey grown attached to Suz...help/j Still have more fits to design/draw for them. Love how i made Venus for this au miss fish lady here pfft but anyway night-

[panjackdaw]

A PRAYER TO SELENE AND VENUS OF THE EVENING SKY

Beneath the blue-black veil of the western heavens, I invoke thee, silver-veined Selene, lamp of dream-tides and keeper of pearl silence, whose pale chariot pours milk upon the bones of night.

And thee, radiant Venus, ember-star of longing, rose-fire suspended in the temple of dusk, whose hidden name is written in copper sigils beneath the tongues of lovers and prophets alike.

Around you wander the ancient fires— mute hierophants crossing the abyssal sea, Saturn with his iron hourglass, Jupiter breathing thunder through the aether, and the wandering souls of stars burning like runes upon the skin of eternity.

O luminous sisters of the evening gate, teach my spirit the secret grammar of the heavens: how darkness flowers into wisdom, how desire becomes a lantern, and how the soul, like a planet unseen, circles forever toward the hidden Sun.