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Venus And Anchises (Haydon)
Venus and Anchises may refer to: ;Mythology *Parents of Aeneas *Venus and Anchises, a story in Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'' ;Art *''Venus and Anchises'', a work in the painting series The Loves of the Gods (Carracci) by Annibale Carracci * ''Venus and Anchise'' (Richmond), painting by William Blake Richmond * ''Venus and Anchise'' (Fletcher), or ''Britain's Ida, or Venus and Anchises'', 1628 poetry attributed to Phineas Fletcher * ''Venus and Anchise'' (Haydon), painting by Benjamin Robert Haydon *'' Venus and Anchises, accompanied by Cupid'', painting by Wallerant Vaillant *'' Anchises and Venus'' 1822 work by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin * ''Venus and Anchise'' (Piranesi), drawing by Giovanni Battista Piranesi *'' Venus, Anchises and Cupid'', painting by Thomas Rowlandson See also *Venus (other) *Anchises In Greek and Roman mythology, Anchises (; ) was a member of the royal family of Troy. He was said to have been the son of King Capys of Dardania and Themiste, daugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus (mythology)
Venus (; ) is a Roman goddess whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor. Venus was central to many religious festivals, and was revered in Roman religion under numerous cult titles. The Romans adapted the myths and iconography of her Greek counterpart Aphrodite for Roman art and Latin literature. In the later classical tradition of the West, Venus became one of the most widely referenced deities of Greco-Roman mythology as the embodiment of love and sexuality. As such, she is usually depicted nude. Etymology The Latin theonym and the common noun ('love, charm') stem from a Proto-Italic form reconstructed as ''*wenos-'' ('desire'), itself from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) ' ('desire'; cf. Messapic , Old Indic 'desire'). Derivatives include ''venust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus And Anchises, Accompanied By Cupid
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is often called Earth's "twin" or "sister" planet for having almost the same List of Solar System objects by size, size and mass, and the closest orbit to Earth's. While both are rocky planets, Venus has an Atmosphere of Venus, atmosphere much thicker and denser than Earth and any other rocky body in the Solar System. Its atmosphere is composed of mostly carbon dioxide (), with a global sulfuric acid cloud cover and no List of largest lakes and seas in the Solar System, liquid water. At the mean surface level the atmosphere reaches a temperature of and a atmospheric pressure, pressure 92 times greater than Earth's at sea level, turning the lowest layer of the atmosphere into a supercritical fluid. Venus is the List of brightest natural objects in the sky, third brightest object in Earth's sky, after the Moon and the Sun, and, like Mercury (planet), Mercury, appears always relatively close to the Sun, either as a "morning star" or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
