The Birth of Venus (French: La Naissance de Vénus) is one of the most famous paintings by 19th-century painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It depicts...
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of the goddess Venus The Birth of Venus (Boucher), 1754 The Birth of Venus (Bouguereau), 1879 The Birth of Venus (Cabanel), 1863 The Birth of Venus (Fragonard)...
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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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(1863) The Birth of Venus (Cabanel) (1863) The Birth of Venus (Bouguereau) (1879) Venus of Cherchell, Gsell museum in Algeria Venus Victrix, and Venus Italica...
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French pronunciation: [wiljam adɔlf buɡ(ə)ʁo]; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic...
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plates ("the fat under the skin appears in slabs"). The Birth of Venus, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1879), reimagines the composition of the Raphael...
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The planet Venus has been used as a setting in fiction since before the 19th century. Its opaque cloud cover gave science fiction writers free rein to...
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(English: The Dance) is an oil-on-canvas painting created by the French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1856. The painting is currently held in the Musée...
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Aphrodite (redirect from Greek goddess of love)
Verticordia (1868) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Birth of Venus (c. 1879) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau The Birth of Venus (1907) by Henri Gervex William Shakespeare's...
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Flora and Zephyr (redirect from Flora and Zephyr ( Bouguereau))
oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It is one of the most famous paintings of the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Mulhouse, France...
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Censor bars (section Illustrations of usage)
Ashcroft The censor bar as used by Google in the SOPA and PIPA online protests Censor bars applied to an academy painting, The Birth of Venus by William-Adolphe...
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Alexandre Cabanel (category Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium)
received the insignia of knight of the Legion of Honor, in 1855. He gained more recognition with The Birth of Venus, exhibited at the Salon of 1863, and...
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Chassériau's Vénus marine and Bouguereau's 1879 The Birth of Venus. A smaller copy of the painting from c.1825–1850 is in the Louvre and the preparatory...
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Guillaume Seignac (category French painter, 19th-century birth stubs)
at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he spent 1889 through 1895. He had many teachers there, including Gabriel Ferrier, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, and...
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Fritz Zuber-Buhler (category 1822 births)
Zuber-Bühler. A reclining beauty Birth of Venus Children with kitten Dressing up Dust returns to dust and the Spirit rises up to the God who gave it Girl with...
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Dante and Virgil (category Paintings by William-Adolphe Bouguereau)
oil-on-canvas painting by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It is in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The painting depicts a scene from...
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Émile Munier (category 1840 births)
1840 – 29 June 1895) was a French academic artist and student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Émile Munier was born in Paris on 2 June 1840 and lived with...
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Equality Before Death (category Paintings by William-Adolphe Bouguereau)
oil-on-canvas painting by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It depicts an angel of death covering the body of a young man with a shroud...
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Theogony (redirect from The birth of gods)
The Theogony (Ancient Greek: Θεογονία, Theogonía, i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods") is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins...
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Mother (redirect from Birth mother)
A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be...
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Léon Perrault (category French painter, 19th-century birth stubs)
A student of William Bouguereau and François-Edouard Picot, one of his earliest works is the 1861 The Death of Priam and he exhibited at the Salon from...
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1879 in art (category Years of the 19th century in art)
the point) Albert Fitch Bellows – The Parsonage William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The Birth of Venus William Burges – Golden Bed Edward Burne-Jones – The Annunciation...
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Cupid (category Deities in the Aeneid)
desire") is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the god of war Mars...
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Les Oréades (redirect from The Oreads)
The Oreads (French: Les Oréades) is an oil painting by the French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, painted in 1902. Its dimensions are 236 × 182 cm...
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identified by some with the Goddess of Fates Clotho (another Claudel sculpture represented the goddess in 1893) or Venus. The young woman that represents...
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Putto (section Revival of the putto in the Renaissance)
France The Birth of Venus, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1879, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France Art Nouveau putti in a sgraffito panel on the House...
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The Birth of Venus (1863). The same is the case of Eùgene Emmanuel Amaury-Duval, author of another Birth of Venus (1862). Jean-Léon Gérôme was one of...
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Cytherean (category Venus)
southeast of the Peloponnesus, and a legendary birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite (Venus). The word Cytherean was first applied to the goddess and...
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Cupid and Psyche (category Deeds of Aphrodite)
rumored that she was the second coming of Venus, or the daughter of Venus from an unseemly union between the goddess and a mortal. Venus is offended, and...
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Moving away from the traditional depictions of nude women, usually in reference to Aphrodite or Venus, Degas provides a snapshot to the intimate activities...
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