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    The Lely Venus is a marble statue of the crouching Venus type. It is a copy of a Hellenistic original by Doidalses of Bithynia and dates from the Antonine...
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    it which had been acquired by Lely from the Commonwealth dispersal of Charles I's art collections, such as the Lely Venus, were re-acquired by the Royal...
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    freely restored as a Diana, holding her hunting bow in her right hand. The Lely Venus (main image, above) is an Antonine marble that was in the Gonzaga collection...
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    called the Lely Venus, which he saw in the Gonzaga collection during his time in Mantua. Cupid and his arrows are shown in front of Venus. http://www...
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    II of England, as Venus with her son as Cupid (c. 1665) by Peter Lely Tannhäuser in the Venusberg (1901) by John Collier Russian Venus (1926) by Boris Kustodiev...
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    century BC) Aphrodite of Syracuse (Roman copy of 2nd century AD), NAMA. The Lely Venus (c. second century AD) Aphrodite Areia Roman copy, NAMA. Early Christians...
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  • The Venus Chained (Les Vénus Enchaînées) is a French documentary film produced by Wooksart, Jacob Rothschild and Dylan Besseau, and directed by Guillaume...
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    The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-tall (4.4 in) Venus figurine estimated to have been made around 29,500 years ago. It was recovered on 7...
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    The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain...
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  • AS Vénus is a football club from Mahina, on the Tahiti island of French Polynesia. They play in the Tahiti First Division. They play home games at Stade...
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    Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American inactive professional tennis player. A former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles,...
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    Temple of Venus Genetrix (Latin: Templum Veneris Genetricis) is a ruined temple in the Forum of Caesar, Rome, dedicated to the Roman goddess Venus Genetrix...
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    The Vénus impudique ("Immodest Venus", also known as Venus Impudica and Vénus de Vibraye) is the first Paleolithic sculptural representation of a woman...
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    A Venus figurine is any Upper Palaeolithic statue portraying a woman, usually carved in the round. Most have been unearthed in Europe, but others have...
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    The Venus Callipyge, also known as the Aphrodite Kallipygos (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος) or the Callipygian Venus, all literally meaning "Venus (or Aphrodite)...
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    A transit of Venus takes place when Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth (or any other superior planet), becoming visible against (and hence...
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  • Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock, known in the original French as Vénus dans le cloître, ou la Religieuse en chemise (1683), is a work of...
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    Cup, on long-term loan to the British Museum. Lely Venus, a Hellenistic statue of the "crouching Venus" type, bought by Charles I, on long-term loan to...
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  • "Venus" is a song by Dutch rock band Shocking Blue, released as a single in the Netherlands in the summer of 1969. Written by Robbie van Leeuwen, the...
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    a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name that was later attributed to at least one other woman similarly...
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  • Critique". Leblogducinema (in French). "Les Vénus enchainées". Allociné (in French). Julie Hofman. "The Chained Venus: behind the scenes of French prostitution"...
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    Venus Verticordia ("Changer of Hearts" or "Heart-Turner") was an aspect of the Roman goddess Venus conceived as having the power to convert either virgins...
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  • of Venus Show is a Canadian LGBT sketch comedy television show created by Canadian filmmaker Mark Kenneth Woods and co-produced by Michael Venus. The...
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    Venus Anadyomene (Greek: Ἀναδυόμενη, "Venus, Rising from the Sea") is one of the iconic representations of the goddess Venus (Aphrodite), made famous in...
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    The Venus Award is a film award in the adult film industry presented yearly in Berlin since 1997 as part of the Venus Berlin trade fair, an international...
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  • Thumbnail for Passage de Vénus
    Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. They were purportedly taken in Japan...
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    The Birth of Venus (French: Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel. It was painted in 1863, and is now in the Musée...
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    The Triumph of Venus is a 1740 oil-on-canvas painting in Rococo style by the French artist François Boucher. It inspired The Birth of Venus by Jean-Honoré...
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    Engravings from Ancient Vases … (1791–7) An Elegant Couple Admiring The 'Lely Venus', 1801 A Confident Child, 1809 Exhibited: Colnaghi as ‘A Girl smelling...
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    The Capitoline Venus is a type of statue of Venus, specifically one of several Venus Pudica (modest Venus) types (others include the Venus de' Medici type)...
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