Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820)
Praxiteles (4th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Ludovisi Aphrodite of Cnidus (Roman copy): Venus Pudica The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy
Phryne Courtesan, mistress of Praxiteles Wealthy: “destroyed by Alexander, restored by Phryne the courtesan” (offered to rebuild the walls of Thebes) ? Swam in the nude, inspired the myth of the birth of Venus /ˈθiːbz/
Jean-Léon Gérôme, Phryne before the Aeropagus, 1861 with Hypereides the Orator Offended the Eleusinian mysteries ceremony. Beauty considered a sign of divinity.
Sandro Boticelli, Birth of Venus, 1485-6, Galleria dei Uffizi, Florence
Salvador Dali, Venus on a Shell, 1976
Titian, Venus of Urbino 1538 /ˈtɪʃən/
Anonymous (School of Fontaineblau, 16th century), Gabrielle d’Estree and one of her sisters?, Musee du Louvre
Melanie Manchot, Emma and Charlie I, 2001, The Brooklyn Museum http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/melanie_manchot.php?i=481 photograph
Melanie Manchot, Namita and Zena, 2001, The Brooklyn Museum http://www
Giorgione, Sleeping Venus, 1510
Rembrandt, Venus and Amor, 1630s?
Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque, 1812, Musée du Louvre
Dominique Ingres, Odalisque with a Slave, 1842
Pieter-Paul Rubens, Venus with Mirror, 1613-14
Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863
Salvador Dali, Venus de Milo with Drawers, 1936