Editing Venus (mythology) (section)

== Post-classical culture ==
=== Medieval art ===
Venus is remembered in ''[[De Mulieribus Claris]]'', a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the [[Florence|Florentine]] author [[Giovanni Boccaccio]], composed in 1361{{endash}}62. It is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature.<ref name="Brown_xi">{{cite book |last=Boccaccio |first=Giovanni |author-link=Giovanni Boccaccio |year=2003 |translator=Virginia Brown |title=Famous Women |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |series=I Tatti Renaissance Library |volume=1 |isbn=0-674-01130-9 |page=xi}}</ref>

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|[[File:Othea's Epistle (Queen's Manuscript) 07.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Medieval representation of Venus, sitting on a rainbow, with her devotees who offer their hearts to her, 15th century.]]
|[[File:Roman de la Rose f. 129v (Venus aims at the castle).jpg|thumb|Venus, setting fire to the castle where the Rose is imprisoned, in the medieval French romance [[Roman de la Rose]]. In this story Venus is portrayed as the mother of [[Cupid]]]]
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=== Art in the classical tradition ===
[[File:Aphrodite Anadyomene from Pompeii cropped.jpg|thumb|[[Venus Anadyomene|Venus rising from the sea]], alluding to the birth-myth of Greek [[Aphrodite]].<ref>[[Mary Beard (classicist)|Beard, M.]], [[Simon Price (classicist)|Price, S.]], North, J., ''Religions of Rome: Volume 2, a Sourcebook, illustrated,'' Cambridge University Press, 1998, 2.1a, p. 27</ref>  From a garden wall at the Casa della Venere in conchiglia, [[Pompeii]]. Before AD 79]]
Venus became a popular subject of [[painting]] and [[sculpture]] during the [[Renaissance]] period in Europe. As a "[[classical tradition|classical]]" figure for whom [[nudity]] was her natural state, it was socially acceptable to depict her unclothed. As the goddess of [[Human sexuality|sexuality]], a degree of erotic beauty in her presentation was justified, which appealed to many artists and their patrons. Over time, ''venus'' came to refer to any artistic depiction in post-classical art of a nude woman, even when there was no indication that the subject was the goddess.
[[File:Sandro Botticelli - La nascita di Venere - Google Art Project - edited.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|''[[The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)|The Birth of Venus]]'', by [[Sandro Botticelli]] {{circa|1485}}–1486.]]
[[File:Jacopo Tintoretto - Venus, Mars, and Vulcan - WGA22664.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|''[[Tintoretto|Venus, Mars, and Vulcan]]'', by [[Tintoretto]] ]]
* [[The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)|''The Birth of Venus'' (Botticelli)]] ({{circa|1485}})
* ''[[Sleeping Venus (Giorgione)|Sleeping Venus]]'' ({{circa|1501}})
* ''[[Venus of Urbino]]'' (1538)
* ''[[Venus with a Mirror]]'' ({{circa|1555}})
* ''[[Rokeby Venus]]'' (1647–1651)
* ''[[Olympia (Manet)|Olympia]]'' (1863)
* [[The Birth of Venus (Cabanel)|''The Birth of Venus'' (Cabanel)]] (1863)
* [[The Birth of Venus (Bouguereau)|''The Birth of Venus'' (Bouguereau)]] (1879)
* Venus of Cherchell, Gsell museum in [[Algeria]]
* ''[[Venus Victrix (Canova)|Venus Victrix]]'', and ''Venus Italica'' by [[Antonio Canova]]

In the field of [[prehistoric art]], since the discovery in 1908 of the so-called "[[Venus of Willendorf]]" small [[Neolithic]] sculptures of rounded female forms have been conventionally referred to as [[Venus figurines]]. Although the name of the actual deity is not known, the knowing contrast between the obese and fertile [[cult figure]]s and the classical conception of Venus has raised resistance to the terminology.{{Citation needed|date=March 2020}}

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File:TITIAN - Venus Anadyomene (National Galleries of Scotland, c. 1520. Oil on canvas, 75.8 x 57.6 cm).jpg|''[[Venus Anadyomene (Titian)|Venus Anadyomene]]'' ({{circa|1525}}) by [[Titian]]
File:Titian - Venus with a Mirror - Google Art Project.jpg|''Venus with a Mirror'' ({{circa|1555}}) by [[Titian]]
File:Målning. Venus. Frans Floris - Hallwylska museet - 86707.tif|''Venus'' by [[Frans Floris]], [[Hallwyl Museum]]
File:0 Vénus et Cupidon - P.P. Rubens - Musée Thyssen-Bornemisza (2).JPG|''Venus and Cupid'', painting ({{circa|1650}}–1700) by [[Peter Paul Rubens]]
File:Jacques-Louis David - Mars desarme par Venus.JPG|''[[Mars Being Disarmed by Venus]]'' (1822–1825) by [[Jacques-Louis David]]
File:Lely_venus-cupid.jpg|[[Nell Gwynne]], one of the long-time mistresses of King Charles II of England, as Venus with her son as Cupid ({{circa|1665}}) by [[Peter Lely]]
File:Tannhäuser en el Venusberg, por John Collier.jpg|''Tannhäuser in the Venusberg'' (1901) by [[John Collier (Pre-Raphaelite painter)|John Collier]]
File:Kustodiev russian venus.jpg|''Russian Venus'' (1926) by [[Boris Kustodiev]]
File:Iris presenting the wounded Venus to Mars (Venus, supported by Iris, complaining to Mars), by Sir George Hayter, 1820 - Ante Library, Chatsworth House - Derbyshire, England - DSC03419.jpg|Iris presenting the wounded Venus to Mars by Sir [[George Hayter]], 1820 – Ante Library, [[Chatsworth House]]
File:Venus and Cupid dli 165005537 cor.tif|Anonymous (France) after [[François Boucher]], "Venus and Cupid on a Dolphin", 19th century, [[Lithography|lithograph]]
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