Venus
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Roman An ancient goddess originally of
springtime, crop cultivation, and gardens. By the end
of the third century b.c., the Romans had given Venus
the characteristics of the Greek goddess Aphrodite,
and Venus became the goddess of love and beauty.
The name Venus means desire, charm, and grace
in Latin, though the name is much older than the
Roman civilization.
In some accounts, Venus was the daughter of
Jupiter and Dione, who was a Nymph. Venus became
the wife of Vulcan and the mother of Cupid. According
to the Roman poet Virgil, Venus was also the
mother of the hero Aeneas. Though scholars believe
that people in Italy worshiped Venus long before the
Greek influence arrived, one story says that Aeneas brought her cult with him when he arrived there after
fleeing Troy.
The Romans regarded Venus as one of the founders
of their people. Julius Caesar, who ruled Rome from 49
to 44 b.c., and Augustus, who became emperor in 27
b.c., both considered her their patroness and guardian.
Many artists chose this goddess of beauty as
their subject. The Venus de Milo, now in the Louvre
museum in Paris, is one of the most famous statues
in the world. It was sculpted in the second or first
century b.c. and was found on the island of Melos in
a.d. 1820. The 15th-century Italian painter known as
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) portrayed
her as rising from the sea and standing on a half scallop
shell in Birth of Venus, which hangs in the Uffizi
Gallery in Florence, Italy.
Venus is the name of the second planet from the
Sun in the solar system. It is the brightest object to
appear in the night sky, shining as either the morning
star or the evening star, depending on the season and
the planet's position relative to Earth. Early Greeks
and Romans believed they saw two different planets
until Pythagoras (c. 500 b.c.), a Greek philosopher
and mathematician who settled in Italy, demonstrated
that they were the same object.
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- VÉNUS ET ADONIS [Venus and Adonis].
- ANALYSE LA NAISSANCE DE VENUS - SANDRO BOTTICELLI
- ANALYSE OEUVRE : LA NAISSANCE DE VENUS - SANDRO BOTTICELLI
- VENUS PARÉE PAR LES GRACES de CARRACHE
- CRANACH Lucas : VENUS ET L'AMOUR