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Venus Anadyomene [1] (Greek: Ἀναδυόμενη, "Venus, Rising from the Sea") is one of the iconic representations of the goddess Venus , made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in Pliny's Natural History, [2] with the anecdote that the great Apelles employed Campaspe, a mistress of Alexander the Great ...
Venus Anadyomene is an oil painting by Titian, dating to around 1520. It depicts Venus rising from the sea and wringing her hair, with a shell visible at the bottom left, taken from a description of Venus by Greek poet Hesiod in which she was born fully-grown from a shell. [ 2 ]
Venus Anadyomene is a painting by the French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. It is now held at the Musée Condé , Chantilly, France. It is a female nude of the Venus Anadyomene type, showing the goddess Venus rising from the sea.
Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486).Tempera on canvas. 172.5 cm × 278.9 cm (67.9 in × 109.6 in). Uffizi, Florence Detail: the face of Venus. The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mid-1480s.
Morning star, most commonly used as a name for the planet Venus when it appears in the east before sunrise See also Venus in culture; Morning star, a name for the star Sirius, which appears in the sky just before sunrise from early July to mid-September; Morning star, a (less common) name for the planet Mercury when it appears in the east ...
Your rising sign is your cosmic signature. Find which zodiac sign was “rising” on the eastern horizon when you were born.
Venus Libertina ("Venus the Freedwoman"), probably arising through the semantic similarity and cultural links between libertina (as "a free woman") and lubentina (possibly meaning "pleasurable" or "passionate"). Further titles or variants acquired by Venus through the same process, or through orthographic variance, include Libentia, Lubentina ...
Venus is important in many Australian aboriginal cultures, such as that of the Yolngu people in Northern Australia. The Yolngu gather after sunset to await the rising of Venus, which they call Barnumbirr. As she approaches, in the early hours before dawn, she draws behind her a rope of light attached to the Earth, and along this rope, with the ...