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Legend says Simonetta Vespucci was the model for Botticelli's "The Birth of" this goddess of love |
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ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS |
2015-07-13 |
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O'Keeffe's observations of this planet in late afternoon inspired her "Evening Star" paintings |
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THE ART OF GEORGIA O'KEEFFE |
2013-09-26 |
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In Botticelli's "Birth of" her, the west wind is blowing the goddess toward us |
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ART & ARTIST |
2013-01-22 |
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Both Titian & Giovanni Bellini painted this beautiful Roman goddess gazing in a mirror |
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ART & MYTHOLOGY |
2012-10-29 |
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Giorgione never finished his painting of this Roman love goddess sleeping, so Titian did it for him |
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MYTHOLOGY & ART |
2008-07-23 |
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Titian must have loved this Roman goddess: he painted her with a lute player & with Adonis |
Venus
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MYTHOLOGY & ART |
2007-07-09 |
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Appropriately, this Roman goddess oversees the love life of her grandson in Mozart's opera "Ascanio in Alba" |
Venus
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I LOVE A MOZART OPERA |
2006-11-30 |
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(Kelly of the Clue Crew plays art professor, a slide of a famous work appearing behind her.) In Fragonard's "The Meeting", shesteps out of Roman mythology to look down on the young lovers |
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MYTHOLOGY & ART |
2006-05-04 |
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Fittingly, Francois Boucher painted "The Toilet of" this Roman goddess for Madame de Pompadour |
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ART & ARTISTS |
2005-04-21 |
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In the 2001 mix there was the name of this goddess or planet |
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NECCO SWEETHEARTS |
2003-02-14 |
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Like another famous painter, William-Adolphe Bouguereau shows her nude on a shell for her "birth" |
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THE NUDE IN ART |
1999-04-28 |
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She may have been Botticelli's favorite goddess; he placed her at the center of his famous painting "Primavera" |
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ART |
1996-09-09 |
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In 1538 Titian painted this Roman goddess of beauty reclining nude on a bed |
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ART |
1995-11-07 |
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Around 1485 Botticelli completed his painting of "The Birth of" this goddess |
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ART |
1994-02-07 |
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Giorgione's painting of this Roman goddess of love sleeping was left unfinished when he died |
Venus
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ARTISTS |
1991-04-02 |
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Boticelli is famous for painting "The Birth of" this goddess |
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ITALIAN ART |
1988-05-16 |
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There are 2 folks flying in & a wardrobe lady on hand at her birth in Botticelli painting |
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ART |
1986-03-18 |
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