Editing Venus (mythology) (section)

=== Classical art ===
[[File:Venus sur un char tiré par des élpéhants - Pompéi - Atelier des Feutriers.jpg|thumb|Venus riding a ''[[quadriga]]'' of [[elephant]]s, fresco from [[Pompeii]], 1st century AD]]
[[File:Capitoline Venus - Palazzo Nuovo - Musei Capitolini - Rome 2016.jpg|thumb|Statue of nude Venus of the Capitoline type, Roman, 2nd century AD, from Campo Iemini, housed in the British Museum]]
Roman and Hellenistic art produced many variations on the goddess, often based on the [[Praxiteles|Praxitlean]] type [[Aphrodite of Cnidus]]. Many female nudes from this period of sculpture whose subjects are unknown are in modern art history conventionally called "Venus", even if they originally may have portrayed a mortal woman rather than operated as a [[cult statue]] of the goddess.

Examples include:
* ''[[Venus de Milo]]'' (130 BC)
* [[:File:Venus pudica Massimo.jpg|Venus Pudica]]
:* [[Capitoline Venus]]
:* [[Venus de' Medici]]
* [[Esquiline Venus]]
* [[:File:Venus Felix Pio-Clementino.jpg|Venus Felix]]
* [[:File:Venus Arles.jpg|Venus of Arles]]
* [[Venus Anadyomene]] (also [[:File:Lely Venus BM 1963.jpg|here]])
* [[:File:NAMA Aphrodite Pan & Eros.jpg|Venus, Pan and Eros]]
* [[Venus Genetrix (sculpture)|Venus Genetrix]]
* [[:File:Venus Capua, Nordisk familjebok.png|Venus of Capua]]
* [[Venus Kallipygos]]
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