Ancient Greek and Roman Myths Notes
Aphrodite (Venus)
Aphrodite,
the Greek goddess of love,
Venus – a very ancient Latin divinity,
in the II century BC she was assimilated into the legend of the Greek Aphrodite,
who, by some versions, was born of sea. Aphrodite was a wife of Hephaestus,
god of fire, but had many love affairs both with gods (Mars,
Hermes
and others) and mortals (Adonis and others),
which resulted in the birth of several children; one of them was Eros
(Cupid).
See: Alessandro Botticelli The
Birth of Venus,
Venus
and Mars. Venus and the
Three Graces presenting Gifts to a Young Woman,
François Boucher. Venus
at Vulcan's Forge. The Triumph
of Venus. The Toilet of Venus.
The
Toilet of Venus. Venus Consoling
Love. The Birth of Venus.
Agnolo Bronzino. Venus
and Cupid. Venus and Cupid
with Two Amoretti and Jealousy. Venus
and Cupid with a Satyr.
Sir Edward Burne-Jones The
Passing of Venus.
Correggio
Venus, Satyr
and Cupid. Mercury with Venus
and Cupid.
Lucas Cranach the Elder Venus
Standing in a Landscape; Venus
and Cupid,
Cupid Complaining
to Venus, Venus with Cupid
Stealing Honey, Venus
and Cupid, Venus and Cupid.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Venus
and Cupid. Venus Refusing
Cupid a Kiss. The Toilet
of Venus.
Giorgione Sleeping Venus;
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Venus
Anadyomène, Venus at Paphos.
Angelica Kauffman. Venus
Persuades Helen to Fall in Love with Paris.
Lorenzo Lotto Venus
and Cupid.
Andrea Mantegna. Mars
and Vernus, known as
Parnassus.
Pontormo. Venus and
Cupid.
Nicolas Poussin. Mars
and Venus, The Sleeping Venus
and Cupid. Venus Lamenting over
Adonis.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Venus
Verticordia.
Sir Joshua Reynolds. Venus
Chiding Cupid. Venus.
Cupid
Undoing Venus's Belt.
Peter Paul Rubens Venus at
a Mirror.
Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto. Venus
and Mars Surprised by Vulcan.
Titian The Worship of Venus,
Venus
Anadyomene,
Venus of Urbino,
Venus
with a Mirror. Venus and Adonis.
Venus
and Cupid with an Organist,
Venus
Blindfolding Cupid. An Allegory,
Perhaps of Marriage, with Vesta and Hymen as Protectors and Advisers of
the Union of Venus and Mars.
Anthony van Dyck Venus
Asking Vulcan for Arms for Aeneas.
Paolo Veronese. Mars
and Venus United by Love. Venus
with a Mirror (Venus at Her Toilette). Venus
and Adonis.
