Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Venere, Adone e Cupido (Venus, Adonis and Cupid) c.1590 Oil on canvas, 212 x 268 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Venus, the Roman goddess of Love and Beauty, is accidentally wounded by one of her son Cupid’s arrows,…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus at the Mirror 1613–1614 Oil on panel, 124 x 98 cm Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 242.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Il giudizio di Paride (The Judgement of Paris) 1583 Pen and ink on paper, 36.6 x 47.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York On his father’s death in 1540, the young Alessandro Allori was adopted by Bronzino…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Vénus victorieuse (Venus Victorious) 1914 Bronze, 182.6 x 81.3 x 111.1 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Venus Victrix 1914–1916 Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Venus Victrix 1914–1916 Gum-lacquered patina plaster, 192 x 134 x 73 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Vénus victorieuse 1914 Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Vénus de Milo aux tiroirs (Venus de Milo with Drawers) 1936 Painted plaster with metal pulls and mink pompons, 98 × 32.5 × 34 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) L’Olimpo, o Trionfo di Venere (The Olympus or Triumph of Venus) 1761–1764 Oil on canvas, 87 x 61.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is a sketch for a no-longer extant painting on canvas intended to decorate…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) La toilette de Vénus 1873 Oil on canvas, 170 x 130 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Venere e Cupido (Venus and Cupid) c.1575–1580 Oil on wood, 143 x 226.50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier The Mannerist painter Allori designed a complex representation of Venus which owes much to the powerful figures of Michelangelo. The…