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    art. Variants of the Venus Pudica (suggesting an action to cover the breasts) are the Venus de' Medici and the Capitoline Venus. The Aphrodite of Knidos...
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    Mimosa pudica (also called sensitive plant, sleepy plant,[citation needed] action plant, humble plant, touch-me-not, touch-and-die, or shameplant) is a...
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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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    with a statue of Venus show her in the pudica or anadyomene poses. The apparent erasure of social rank in emulating the nude Venus was renegotiated by...
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    brightness. Although the pose of Venus is classical in some respects, and borrows the position of the hands from the Venus Pudica type in Greco-Roman sculptures...
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    de Vibraye named it La Vénus impudique or Venus Impudica ("immodest Venus"), contrasting it to the Venus Pudica. Venus Pudica was a class of Roman sculptures...
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    Aphrodite of Menophantos (category Sculptures of Venus)
    marble statue of the goddess Venus. Its design takes the form of "Venus Pudica", based on another statue, the Capitoline Venus. It was found at the Camaldolese...
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    BC) Venus Pudica Capitoline Venus Venus de' Medici Esquiline Venus Venus Felix Venus of Arles Venus Anadyomene (also here) Venus, Pan and Eros Venus Genetrix...
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    The Campo Iemini Venus is a marble sculpture of the Venus Pudica/Capitoline Venus type. It was unearthed in the spring of 1792 among other sculptures in...
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    ancestral sticky trap form. The Venus flytrap is one of a very small group of plants capable of rapid movement, such as Mimosa pudica, the telegraph plant, starfruit...
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    showed Venus in the Venus Pudica position, standing and covering her breasts with her hands. The pose was inspired by Botticelli's The Birth of Venus – Ingres...
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    though the last two are far more restored than this example - 'Aphrodite at the pillar', an 'Armed Venus' and a Venus Pudica[1]. Louvre catalogue v t e...
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  • Peyrehorade shows the narrator his new discovery: a bronze statue of Venus Pudica. The narrator judges the statue to be very old and deciphers the inscription...
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    Botticelli's The Birth of Venus c. 1485–1486, oil on canvas, Uffizi, Florence)—a revived Venus Pudica for a new view of pagan Antiquity—is often said...
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    of the Venus pudica pose, enticing the viewer to look upon her naked body and imagine what she is hiding behind her thin drape. The Venus pudica pose is...
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    that of another by Ingres, the Venus Anadyomene (1848), and is a reimagination of the Aphrodite of Cnidus or Venus Pudica. Two of Ingres' students, painters...
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    called Venus pendula conversa, "perpendicular Venus with the woman facing toward (the man)"; for its reverse (Venus pendula aversa, "perpendicular Venus with...
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    Venus (the Mazarin Venus)". The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection. Retrieved 2024-07-06. Lung Clark, David (2005). "Raphael's Fornarina: Venus Pudica or...
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    Aphrodite of Syracuse (category Cnidian Venuses)
    breast. The head is twisted to the left. Thus the statue belongs to the Venus pudica type, which derives from a statue of the famous sculptor Praxiteles,...
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    ceremony, attending to a shrine holding a statue of Venus according to the iconography of the Venus Pudica. The shrine is surrounded by votive tablets. The...
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    Vibraye named it La Vénus impudique or Venus Impudica ("immodest Venus"), contrasting it to the Venus Pudica, Hellenistic sculpture by Praxiteles showing...
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    the "Venus Pudica", which covers her nudity with her arms, as seen in the Capitoline Venus—sometimes attributed to Praxiteles himself—or the Venus Calypigia...
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    Donatello. For Eve, art analysts usually point to different versions of Venus Pudica, such as Prudence by Giovanni Pisano. Three centuries after the fresco...
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    Satyr Leaning Satyr Leda and the Swan The Spinario The Capitoline Venus (a Venus Pudica) Wounded Warrior Baby Heracles strangling a snake sent to kill him...
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    famous in her day and gave rise to the prolific typological family of the Venus Pudica. His Hermes and the Infant Dionysus illustrates his mastery in depicting...
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    even partially modelled after classical sculptures of the Venus Pudica, such as the Medici Venus. In 1635, Rubens bought an estate outside Antwerp, the Steen...
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    pose of the Pardo Venus, recalling a Venus pudica pose with one arm covering the genitals, is similar to that in Giorgione's Dresden Venus, which was completed...
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    Ettlingers, 146; Lightbown, 231 only recognizes her pose as in part to be a Venus pudica and, 235 identifies vase carrying figures by Ghiberti on the frame of...
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    to contemporary viewers. They were rather an allusion to Venus Pudica, or the "chaste" Venus, and in Paris Bordone's allegories of lovers (c. 1550) toplessness...
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    above. Eve's position is from an ancient representation, that of Venus Pudica (modest Venus). The foliage covering the couple's nudities was removed during...
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