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Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820)

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Page 1: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Venus de Milocca. 130 BCE

(discovered 1820)

Page 2: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Praxiteles (4th century B.C.)The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos

The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy

The Ludovisi Aphrodite of Cnidus (Roman copy): Venus Pudica

Page 3: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Phryne

• Courtesan, mistress of Praxiteles• Wealthy:

“destroyed by Alexander, restored by Phryne the courtesan” (offered to rebuild the walls of Thebes)

• ? Swam in the nude, inspired the myth of the birth of Venus

Page 4: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Jean-Léon Gérôme,Phryne before the Aeropagus, 1861

with Hypereides the Orator

Page 5: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Sandro Boticelli, Birth of Venus, 1485-6, Galleria dei Uffizi, Florence

Page 6: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Salvador Dali,Venus on a Shell,1976

Page 7: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Titian, Venus of Urbino 1538

Page 8: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Anonymous (School of Fontaineblau, 16th century), Gabrielle d’Estree and one of her sisters?, Musee du Louvre

Page 9: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Melanie Manchot, Emma and Charlie I, 2001, The Brooklyn Museumhttp://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/melanie_manchot.php?i=481

Page 10: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Melanie Manchot, Namita and Zena, 2001, The Brooklyn Museumhttp://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/melanie_manchot.php?

i=482

Page 11: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Giorgione, Sleeping Venus, 1510

Page 12: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Rembrandt, Venus and Amor, 1630s?

Page 13: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque, 1812, Musée du Louvre

Page 14: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Dominique Ingres, Odalisque with a Slave, 1842

Page 15: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Pieter-Paul Rubens, Venus with Mirror, 1613-14

Page 16: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863

Page 17: Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy The Ludovisi

Salvador Dali, Venus de Milo with Drawers, 1936