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  2. The Birth of Venus - Wikipedia

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    The painting is referenced in the title and cover artwork for Venus on the Half-Shell, a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer. Andy Warhol reproduced the image in his series Details of Renaissance paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482) Portfolio (F & S II.316–319). The portfolio comprises four screenprints in editions of ...

  3. Venus on the Half-Shell - Wikipedia

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    The title and paperback cover art are a reference to an Italian Renaissance tempera painting by Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, which depicts the birth of the goddess Venus as her rising from the sea on a scallop shell. The phrase "on the half-shell" commonly refers to a method of serving oysters.

  4. Venus Anadyomene (Titian) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Venus Anadyomene - Wikipedia

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    A scallop shell, often found in Venus Anadyomenes, is a symbol of the female vulva. The subject never entirely disappeared in Western art, and revived greatly in the Italian Renaissance, with further boosts in the Baroque and Rococo, and in late 19th-century Academic painting. At least one central female nude is practically required in the ...

  6. The Birth of Venus (Bouguereau) - Wikipedia

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    Venus' figure was enlarged from this nymph. At the center of the painting, Venus stands nude on a scallop shell [1] being pulled by a dolphin, one of her symbols. Fifteen putti, including Cupid and his lover Psyche, and several nymphs and centaurs have gathered to witness Venus' arrival.

  7. Category:Paintings of Venus - Wikipedia

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    Venus and Cupid with a Satyr; Venus and Mars (Botticelli) Venus and Mars (Veronese) Venus and Musician; Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman; Venus Asks Vulcan to Forge Arms for her Son Aeneas; Venus Blindfolding Cupid; Venus Consoling Love; Venus Disarming Cupid; Venus Disrobing for the Bath; Venus Frigida; Venus of ...

  8. File:Sandro Botticelli - La nascita di Venere - Google Art ...

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  9. House of the Greek Epigrams - Wikipedia

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    Artist Geremia Discanno sketched the painting before it was removed to the museum in Naples. Two other panel paintings, one of Mars and Venus (at o) with three erotes playing with the weapons of Mars and one erote with the toiletry-objects of Venus, and a painting of Theseus and Ariadne, the most popular subject in Pompeian painting, were left ...

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