#eng - Marble statue of Aphrodite, Roman, Imperial period, 1st or 2nd century A.D. Copy of Greek statue of the 3rd or 2nd century B.C., #ita - statua di marmo rappresentante Venere, II - I sec.a.C., copia romana di un originale greco.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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A long, elegant gold hairpin adorned with #Aphrodite and her son #Eros. Eros offers support to his mum who appears to adorn herself, adjusting one of her anklets to complement the snake-shaped arm bracelets she already wears.
🏛️ Gold Aphrodite Hairpin, 1st century BCE, Greece
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#Aphrodite-Venus with her iconic top-bow hairstyle as she puts on an anklet or a sandal. The gold of the jewellery and red of her lips really stands out against her dark skin.
🏛️ #Venus statuette with gold jewellery from #Pompeii. Today in the National Archaeological Museum, #Naples
Ares-Mars embraced by his love Aphrodite-Venus with a dog at their feet. The club in his hand is usually part of the iconography of #Herakles so it could also be a fresco depicting #Hercules and Megaera or Deïaneira. Does anyone know if it's Mars of Hercules?
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#Aphrodite Anadyomene, Aphrodite Rising from the Sea, as depicted in an #Egyptian blue faience statuette. Egyptian faience (tjehenet in ancient Egyptian) is a ceramic material that gets a glassy look from quartz reacting with alkali.
🏛️ Aphrodite Anadyomene made from blue faience, Ptolemaic #Egypt
A humourous oil painting of the love of #Mars and #Venus that was created when the artist was only 15 or 16 years old.
Mars ist struck by an arrow in his chest but it is a love arrow 😘
🏛️ Mars, Venus and #Vulcan, by John Singleton Copley. Oil on canvas, dated 1754 CE. Today in the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, USA.
Aphrodite is pouring a libation into the phiale (libation bowl) held by her lover Ares over an altar. A servant or child stands behind her on the left.
🏛️ Attic votive relief of Aphrodite and Ares. Marble. Dated to the 5th century BCE. Today in the National Archaeological Museum in #Venice.
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Neoclassical statue of #Aphrodite and her lover #Adonis. Adonis was loved not only by Aphrodite but also by Persephone, Apollon, Dionysos, and #Herakles. In fact, Herakles' death was orchastrated by Aphrodite in revenge for the hero stealing her man!
🏛️ Venus and Adonis by Antonio Canova, dated ca. 1794 CE
@antiquidons#Astronomy and calendars are the domain of #Hermes. His grandfather Atlas turns the heavenly constellations and his mother Maia is one of the starry Pleiades.
Atlas instructed him in astronomy and the Greek mythographer Euhemeros says that #Aphrodite first established the constellations and taught Hermes. The planet #Mercury is attributed to Hermes because he first established the months and perceived the courses of the constellations.
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One of the most famous artworks of #Aphrodite is Aphrodite Kallipygos, Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks. The goddess lifts her dress to reveal her gorgeous backside to the onlooker.
🏛️ Roman marble sculpture, 1st or 2nd century BCE. Today in the National Archaeological Museum, #Naples.
"Let us be merry and drink wine and sing of Bakkhos [#Dionysos], the inventor of the choral dance, the lover of all songs, leading the same life as the Erotes, the darling of Kythere [#Aphrodite]."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 38
🏛️ Roman terracotta relief dated 20 BCE - 50 CE. Today in the British Museum.
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A rare #fresco of Aphrodite Anadyomene, Aphrodite/Venus rising from the sea. The goddess is in the nude, wringing out her hair. Note her beautiful jewellery!
"Let us be merry and drink wine and sing of Bakkhos [#Dionysos], the inventor of the choral dance, the lover of all songs, leading the same life as the Erotes, the darling of Kythere [#Aphrodite]."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 38
🏛️ Roman terracotta relief dated 20 BCE - 50 CE. Today in the British Museum.
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
You have heard of Princess Leia in the golden bikini. Now get ready for #VENUS in a golden bikini! Homegirl is putting on her golden sandals, aided by her son #Eros. She is using a statue of #Priapus with a gilded erection to lean on.
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"She came to sea-girt Kypros, and came forth an awful and lovely goddess, and grass grew up about her beneath her shapely feet. Gods and men call her #Aphrodite, and Aphrogeneia (the foam-born) because she grew amid the sea foam."
Hesiod, Theogony 176
🏛️ Aphrodite figurine from #Corinth, dated 3rd century BCE.
For #FannyFriday I bring you a special photo I took on my #museum trip yesterday: #Aphrodite inspired by the Aphrodite of #Knidos — copies were forbidden by the Knidonians! She is special to me because not only is she beautiful and wears a cool arm ring, the artist has also added a slit to the pubic triangle. I very rarely see this and it filled me with excitement and joy when I discovered it 🥰
So I'm back from my #museum trip. I am severely disappointed by all of the statues having been vandalised. The only intact phalloi I could find were on a relief and a modern reconstruction. I DID meet a beautiful statue of #Aphrodite, though! She even still has a visible slit! I will share the images on Friday, the Day of Aphrodite.
As a sneak peek, enjoy this beautiful bum!