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Venus Anadyomene

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When the angle of impact is about 90°, ‘the “break” is both concentrated within a small width of swell, and very violent, so that the breaker shoots up in a column like a water-spout, 10–15 feet high, and falls back in an outward cascade of foam which may be carried some feet to leeward by the wind.
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who draw onward to the Americas the half-shell on which she stands. Cupid is displayed in the scene taking aim at a depiction of Neptune on the left waving a British flag. To the right is shown
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The image of Venus Anadyomene is one of the very few images that survived in Western Europe, essentially unchanged from its classical appearance, from Antiquity into the
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Venerem exeuntem e mari divus Augustus dicavit in delubro patris Caesaris, quae anadyomene vocatur, versibus Graecis tantopere dum laudatur, aevis victa, sed inlustrata.
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looking back to the Sable Venus and embracing one of the dolphins. The figure is one of feminine strength: muscular, lean and adorned by a jewel necklace.
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in 2003. It depicts Venus standing in the sea, wringing out her hair. The scallop shell is merely symbolic, as it does not interact with Venus.
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artists reading Pliny to emulate Apelles, and if possible, to outdo him, Venus Anadyomene was taken up again in the 15th century: besides
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A bronze statue of Venus Anadyomene made in the 1st or 2nd century. Venus is shown wringing out her hair. The statue was discovered in
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Rococo sculptures of the subject were modestly draped across the hips, but bolder nudes appealed to male nineteenth-century patrons.
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his father, which is called 'The Anadyomene', praised in Greek verses like other works, conquered by time but undimmed in fame."
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It looks exactly like a human figure literally “rising from the sea” and spreading long hair and dripping arms.
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depicts an African woman in the role of Venus. Attended by eight cherubs fanning her with feathers either of
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created an etching inspired by Raphael or by Baroque compositions for the third edition of Bryan Edwards'
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for his own personal collection. Venus lies naked on the waves ambiguously, with putti flying above her.
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was on the coast near Paphos in winter. Watching the sea, he saw the wind blow two breakers together.
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instances two images of Venus among constellations illustrating 14th-century Provençal manuscripts of
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The subject was popular with Baroque and Rococo painters, who made up large groups with attending
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The Aphrodite of Knidos and her successors: a historical review of the female nude in Greek art
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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executed the subject in 1835; he repeated the hair-wringing gesture in his most famous work
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of the late 19th century. It was shown at the Paris Salon of 1879, and was bought for the
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recast the image of Venus Anadyomene in the central figure of his seminal painting
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The subject never entirely disappeared in Western art, and revived greatly in the
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Eyes of Love: The Gaze in English and French Paintings and Novels 1840–1900
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A mural of Venus Anadyomene, with the goddess wringing her hair, from the
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shell, often found in Venus Anadyomenes, is a symbol of the female
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Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
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The History, civil and Commercial of the British colonies in the
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Venus Anadyomene offered a natural subject for a fountain: the
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The voyage of the Sable Venus, from Angola to the West Indies
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The voyage of the sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies
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The voyage of the sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies
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Such a highly conventionalized theme, with undertones of
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p.101, 1996, Reaktion Books, Art & Art Instruction,
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Later examples of representations of Venus Anadyomene
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justified by its mythological context, was ripe for
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Sandro Botticelli Uffizi Gallery, Florence 1484–1486
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Index

Aphrodite Anadyomene
Anadyomene

Kortrijk
Musée royal de Mariemont
Greek
Venus
Aphrodite
Apelles
Pliny's Natural History
Campaspe
Alexander the Great
Athenaeus
Phryne
Eleusinia
Poseidonia
scallop
vulva
Italian Renaissance
Rococo
Academic painting

Casa del Principe di Napoli
Greek mythology
Aphrodite was born
Paphos
Cyprus
virginity
Gallo-Roman
Aquitania

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