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Sandro Botticelli, Uffizi Gallery, Florence 1484–1486 Nicolas Poussin, 1635–36, Philadelphia. Through the desire of Renaissance artists reading Pliny to emulate Apelles, and if possible, to outdo him, Venus Anadyomene was taken up again in the 15th century: besides Botticelli's famous The Birth of Venus (Uffizi Gallery, Florence), another early Venus Anadyomene is the bas-relief by Antonio ...
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.
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]
Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum: Calumny of Apelles: c. 1495: Tempera on panel: 62 × 91 cm: Florence, Uffizi: Last Communion of St. Jerome: c. 1495: Tempera on panel: 34.5 × 25.4 cm: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Portrait of Dante: c. 1495: Tempera on canvas: 54.7 × 47.5 cm: Private collection Lamentation over the Dead ...
Ingres began the painting in 1808 during his stay in Rome at the French Academy. The first preparatory drawings showed Venus in the Venus Pudica position, standing and covering her breasts with her hands. [1] The pose was inspired by Botticelli's The Birth of Venus – Ingres visited Florence and the Uffizi in 1805 and could have seen the ...
The Greek painter Apelles of Kos, a contemporary of Praxiteles, produced the panel painting Aphrodite Anadyomene (Aphrodite Rising from the Sea). [265] According to Athenaeus, Apelles was inspired to paint the painting after watching the courtesan Phryne take off her clothes, untie her hair, and bathe naked in the sea at Eleusis. [265]
Aphrodite Anadyomene ("Aphrodite Rising from the Sea"), showing the goddess rising from the sea (not the painting he was working on when he died, but an earlier painting), for which Pliny the Elder relates the tradition he used a former mistress of Alexander, Campaspe, as his model for Aphrodite.
The Ludovisi Throne is an exceptional ancient sculpture from Locri, Southern Italy. [1] Not an actual throne, the sculpture is white marble block intricately carved with bas-reliefs on its three visible sides, with its primary depiction considered by many as depicting Aphrodite rising from the sea.