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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. The Birth of Venus (Bouguereau) - Wikipedia

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   The Birth of Venus (French: La Naissance de Vénus) is one of the most famous paintings by 19th-century painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau.It depicts not the actual birth of Venus from the sea, but her transportation in a shell as a fully mature woman from the sea to Paphos in Cyprus.

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 on the Half-Shell - Wikipedia

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   Most of the alien names in Venus were formed by transposing the letters of English or non-English words." [1] 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 ...

6. 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 ...

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 ...