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Ceres is an 18th-century statuette by Augustin Pajou depicting Ceres, a Roman goddess. The work, made from terracotta, was intended as a model for a larger marble sculpture, Four Seasons . Ceres is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art .
A Statue of Ceres is an oil on oak panel by Peter Paul Rubens, created c. 1615. It shows putti offering garlands to a statue of the Roman fertility goddess Ceres . It is held in the Hermitage Museum , in St Petersburg .
In ancient Roman religion, Ceres (/ ˈ s ɪər iː z / SEER-eez, [1] [2] Latin:) was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships. [3] She was originally the central deity in Rome's so-called plebeian or Aventine Triad, then was paired with her daughter Proserpina in what Romans described as "the Greek rites of Ceres".
The Rape of Proserpina (Italian: Ratto di Proserpina), more accurately translated as The Abduction of Proserpina, [1] is a large Baroque marble group sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1621 and 1622, when Bernini's career was in its early stage.
Breaking down the legend of the head statues, or the Testa Di Moro, in Season Two of "The White Lotus," and what they all mean.
Ceres Priestess: Joseph Baptist Hagenauer Ceres was a Roman divinity who represented the generative power of nature. [7] Associated with the earth goddess Tellus, Ceres was worshipped in Rome from ancient times. Her cult on Aventine Hill in Rome was her most famous. Her temple there was completed in 493 BC and soon became a center of plebeian ...
The new cult might have partly subsumed the Aventine temple's older, native cults to Ceres, Liber and Libera, but it also functioned alongside them. Liber played no part in the reformed cult. Ceres, Proserpina/Libera and Liber are known to have received cult in their own right, at their Aventine temple and elsewhere, though details are lacking.
Statue of syncretic Goddess Persephone - Isis with a sistrum, Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete This is a list of earth deities . An Earth god or Earth goddess is a deification of the Earth associated with a figure with chthonic or terrestrial attributes.