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Venus Rising is a 1995 erotic science fiction film directed by Leora Barish and Edgar Michael Bravo and starring Billy Wirth, Audie England, Costas Mandylor, Morgan Fairchild, Meredith Salenger, Jessica Alba, and Joel Grey.
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 ...
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 (Venus "rising from the sea"), based on a once-famous painting by the Greek artist Apelles showing the birth of Aphrodite from sea-foam, ...
England was born in Los Angeles, California, and graduated from UCLA with a concentration in cinematography.. When she was 26, England was asked by Zalman King to star in his film version of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus. [3]
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 ]
The written symbols for Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn have been traced to forms found in late Classical Greek papyri. [3] The symbols for Jupiter and Saturn are monograms of the initial letters of the corresponding Greek names, and the symbol for Mercury is a stylized caduceus . [ 3 ]
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.