1. Venus de Milo cca. 130 BCE (discovered 1820)

2. 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

3. 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
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4. Jean-Léon Gérôme, Phryne before the Aeropagus, 1861 with Hypereides the Orator
Offended the Eleusinian mysteries ceremony. Beauty considered a sign of divinity.

5. Sandro Boticelli, Birth of Venus, 1485-6, Galleria dei Uffizi, Florence

6. Salvador Dali,
Venus on a Shell,
1976

7. Titian, Venus of Urbino 1538
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8. Anonymous (School of Fontaineblau, 16th century), Gabrielle d’Estree and one of her sisters?, Musee du Louvre

9. Melanie Manchot, Emma and Charlie I, 2001, The Brooklyn Museum
photograph

10. Melanie Manchot, Namita and Zena, 2001, The Brooklyn Museum http://www

11. Giorgione, Sleeping Venus, 1510

12. Rembrandt, Venus and Amor, 1630s?

13. Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque, 1812, Musée du Louvre

14. Dominique Ingres, Odalisque with a Slave, 1842

15. Pieter-Paul Rubens, Venus with Mirror, 1613-14

16. Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863

17. Salvador Dali, Venus de Milo with Drawers, 1936