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    The Crouching Venus is a Hellenistic model of Venus surprised at her bath. Venus crouches with her right knee close to the ground, turns her head to the...
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    Aphrodite of Rhodes (category Crouching Venuses)
    Rhodes in Rhodes, Greece. It depicts Aphrodite in the crouching Venus pose, where the goddess crouches her right knee close to the ground and turns her head...
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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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    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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    presented, and her sideways glance, also owes much to the Crouching Venus and Cnidian Venus types of antique sculpture.[citation needed] The wringing...
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    Esquiline type (Louvre, Paris) the Crouching Venus (Louvre, Paris and British Museum, London) the Aphrodite Kallipygos (aka Venus Kalypygos, Museo Archeologico...
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    Head of Helios, the god of the island of Rhodes Aphrodite of Rhodes (Crouching Venus). A Hellenistic Greek pebble mosaic floor depicting Bellerophon riding...
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    valuable furnishings of villas of the Roman aristocracy, such as the Crouching Venus, two copies of the Discobolus and some Greek originals (including the...
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    the variants of the other great ancient sculpture of a crouching figure, the Crouching Venus also in the Uffizi collection. However, the Arrotino is...
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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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    Pompeii, Italy, 1st century AD Room 23 - The famous version of the 'Crouching Venus', Roman, c. 1st century AD Room 22 – Roman marble copy of the famous...
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    Spain, now in the Prado, which surely influenced Velázquez's Venus at her Mirror. Crouching Venus (3rd century BC), by Diodalsas of Bithynia, Museo Nazionale...
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    Hellenistic mosaic, Capitoline Museums Diana of Versailles, Louvre Crouching Venus Capitoline Antinous Young Centaur and Old Centaur (Capitoline versions)...
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    arms are arranged in the pose known as Venus pudica, best illustrated by the classical figure of the Crouching Venus. The rendering is more traditional than...
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    of versions of Liberty that Longacre created based on the Venus Accroupie or Crouching Venus, a sculpture then on display in a Philadelphia museum. For...
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    and Longacre himself stated that the face was based on a statue of Crouching Venus in Philadelphia on loan from the Vatican. He did often sketch his elder...
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    Court (1701–2) Multiple fireplaces for Melbourne Hall (1701–7) The Crouching Venus, Umberslade Hall (1702) Multiple garden figures for Castle Howard (1703–10)...
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    unknown. A probable model could have been the antique statue of the Crouching Venus. The figurative parts with their monumental and dominant appearance...
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    Career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles. Along with her elder sister Venus, Serena Williams was coached by her parents Oracene Price and Richard Williams...
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    passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Aphrodite's major symbols...
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    bathing suit clutching a starfish in a pose reminiscent of the crouching Venus and Venus Pudica. Other works in this genre include Sardanapalus (1861)...
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    the most famous examples is the Crouching Venus, a Hellenistic model of Venus surprised at her bath. The goddess Venus in Roman times embodies beauty,...
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    satyrs and monsters. The painting incorporates a crouching figure inspired by the statue of the Crouching Venus by the famous Greek sculptor Doidalses. The...
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    Baccho friget Venus" ("without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes") i.e. love cannot survive without food and wine). He draws Venus' crouched pose from what...
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    (Inanna NUN), the former two reflecting the phases of her associated planet Venus. Her most prominent symbols include the lion and the eight-pointed star...
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    Vulva (redirect from Cleft of Venus)
    more pronounced in the female. The variant term mons veneris ('mound of Venus') is used specifically for females. The labia minora are the small inner...
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  • the stage name Sandy Wynns she released her debut solo single "A Touch of Venus" on Champion Records, which led to a nationwide nightclub tour. She then...
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  • Retrieved 20 July 2024. Frater, Patrick (18 July 2024). "Cheng Pei-pei, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and 'Come Drink With Me' Star, Dies at 78". Variety...
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  • cannons which shoot unlimited tracer bullets. The vehicle can jump and crouch. Crouching opens a hatch on the top of the tank through which grenades already...
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  • (72nd) 0 1 When the Day Breaks 1999 (72nd) 0 1 Gladiator 2000 (73rd) 5 12 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 (73rd) 4 10 Traffic 2000 (73rd) 4 5 Erin Brockovich...
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