Venus de Milocca. 130 BCE

(discovered 1820)

Praxiteles (4th century B.C.)The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos

The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy

The Ludovisi Aphrodite of Cnidus (Roman copy): Venus Pudica

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

Jean-Léon Gérôme,Phryne before the Aeropagus, 1861

with Hypereides the Orator

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

Salvador Dali,Venus on a Shell,1976

Titian, Venus of Urbino 1538

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 Museumhttp://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/melanie_manchot.php?i=481

Melanie Manchot, Namita and Zena, 2001, The Brooklyn Museumhttp://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/melanie_manchot.php?

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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