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Venus

    Census

      Standing

        Statue, draped below hips, Villa Reale, Caserta

        Statue, draped low, Giardino di Boboli, Florence

        Statue, pudica, Giardino di Boboli, Florence

        Statue, with dolphin, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

        Statue, with jar, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

        Statue, with dolphin (Medici Venus), Uffizi, Florence

        Statue, draped behind, Uffizi, Florence

        Statue, with Amor, Uffizi, Florence

        Statuette, Venus Panthea, British Museum, London

        Statue, partly draped, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu

        Statue, Venus Genetrix type, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua

        Statue, Pudica Santa Croce, Glyptothek, Munich

        Statue, Kallipygos, Museo Nazionale, Naples

        Statue, Cnidian type, Museo Nazionale, Naples

        Statue, with Amor, Louvre, Paris

        Torso, Louvre, Paris

        Statue, Pudica, Rockefeller Collection, Pocantico Hills, New York State

        Statue, Venus or sea nymph, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight

        Statue, with dolphin, Villa Borghese, Rome

        Statue, with Amor riding on a dolphin, Museo Capitolino, Rome

        Statue, Pudica (Cnidian), Museo Torlonia, Rome

        Statue, Venus Hygieia, Vatican, Rome

        Statue, Venus Felix, with Amor, Vatican, Rome

        Statue, Venus of Cnidos, Vatican, Rome

        Statue, ‘ex Balneo’, Vatican, Rome

        Statue, Pudica with Amor riding on a dolphin, Museo Archeologico, Venice

        Statue, Pudica semi-draped, Museo Archeologico, Venice

        Statue, headless, Museo Archeologico, Venice

        Statuette, with Amor, Museo Archeologico, Venice

        Statuette, headless, Museo Archeologico, Venice

        Statuette, Venus Sosandra, Museo Archeologico, Venice

        Statue, Genetrix type, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

        Statuette, bronze, Granvella Venus, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

        Statue, lost, in the Ciampolini collection in 16th century

        Statue, lost, in the Maffei collection in 16th century

        Statue, lost, in collection of Cardinal Bibbiena in 16th century

        Statue, lost, formerly in Cevoli and Borghese collections

        Statuette, lost, type known in Raphael’s circle

        Statue, nude, arms missing, unidentified

        Fragment, Venus binding sandal, unidentified

        Statue, drawn twice from behind, unidentified

        Statue, Venus both nude and draped, unidentified

        Statue, Venus pudica torso, unidentified

        Statuette, Venus binding sandal, unidentified

        Statuette, Anadyomene draped, unidentified

        Relief, Venus on a dolphin, from lost Daedalus and Icarus sarcophagus

        Statues, Jacopo Strada drawings, unidentified

      Crouching

        Statue, British Museum, London (from Windsor Castle)

        Relief, from funerary urn of M. Coelius Superstes, British Museum, London

        Statue, Prado, Madrid

        Statue, Museo Nazionale, Naples

        Statue, Museo delle Terme, Rome

        Statue, lost, in Mellini collection in 16th century

        Statue, Codex Pighianus fol. 180, unidentified

        Statue, Jan de Bisschop, unidentified

      Seated

        Statue, Giardino di Boboli, Rome

        Statue, Museo di Chiaramonti, Vatican, Rome

      Heads and busts

        Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig

        Museo Nazionale, Naples

        Museo Archeologico, Venice

        Museo Archeologico, Venice

        Museo Archeologico, Venice

        Museo Archeologico, Venice

      Gems

         Venus on a lion, Museo Nazionale, Naples

         Venus on a goat, Museo Nazionale, Naples

         Venus with Amor and Hermaphrodite, Museo Nazionale, Naples

       Venus of Aphrodisias

          Residenzmuseum, Munich

          Museo Nazionale, Naples

    Single figure

      Classical types

        Cnidian

        Genetrix

        De Milo

        Kallipygos

        Archaic support type

      Venus Pudica

        Capitoline

        Capitoline types

        De› Medici

        De› Medici type

        Without dolphin or jar

        Draped

        Unrestored torsoes

        Adaptations

      Standing

        Draped/semi-draped

          Semi-draped: statues drawn by Pierre Jacques

          Legs draped, with drapery knotted low in front

          Miscellaneous

        Nude

      Crouching

      Seated

      Heads and busts

      Archaic support type

    Venus Anadyomene/Birth of Venus

      Ludovisi Throne, Rome

      Botticelli

      Squeezing her hair dry

      Not squeezing her hair dry

      Adaptations

    Aspects

      Venus Marina

        Without veil or sail

        With veil or sail

      Venus Frigida (Sine Baccho et Cerere friget Venus)

      Armed Venus—see Venus Victrix

      Venus Genetrix—see Classical Types, Venus Verticordia

      Venus Verticordia

      Venus Victrix

      Venus Virgo

      Winged Venus

    Attributes

      Apple

      Doves

      Girdle

      Swan/goose

      Sword

      Symbols of fertility

      Tortoise

    Reclining

    Sleeping

    Toilet and bath of Venus

      Untying a sandal

      Removing a thorn from her foot

      Bathing

      Drying/dressing

      Venus combing her hair

      Venus combed and adorned by the Graces

      Venus holding a mirror

      With a mirror, but not holding it   

      Miscellaneous

    Triumph of Venus

      Marine

      Terrestrial/aerial

    Cult

      Worship

      Sacrifice

      On the island of Cythera

    Venus and Amor

      Alone

        Venus standing

        Venus seated

          Embracing Amor

          Not embracing Amor

        Venus crouching

        Venus reclining

        Various types and incidents

          Venus punishing/disarming/clipping the wings of Amor

          Amor directing his weapons at Venus

          Venus holding arrow/Amor handing arrow to Venus

          Amor blindfold

          Venus holding heart or torch

          Winged Venus and Amor—see Winged Venus

          Venus lactans

          Amor stung by bees or holding honeycomb

          Miscellaneous

    With other figures

      With musician

      With satyr or shepherd

      Miscellaneous

    With other deities

      Amoretti

      Apollo

      Athena and Hercules—see SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY, Allegories of Art

      Bacchus

      Diana

      Graces or nymphs

      Juno

      Jupiter

      Kronos

      Mars—see Mars and Venus

      Mercury

      Neptune

      Pluto

      Vulcan—see Vulcan

      Miscellaneous

    Venus and other figures

      Aeneas

      Anchises

      Emperor

      Paris

      Miscellaneous

    Venus in allegorical images    Adaptations

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Apple, Arms, Arrow, Balance, Bow and arrows, Burning heart, Cerberus, Dog, Dolphin, Doves, Eagle, Fertility symbols, Flowers, Frog, Girdle (Venus Kestophoros), Goat (Venus Epitragia), Heart, Jewellery, Lion, Mirror, Mussel, Myrtle, Olive branch, Partridge, Robe with mythological scenes (Venus of Aphrodisias), Sea monster, Shell, Ship, Swan, Symbols of Isis (Aphrodite - Isis), Torch, Tortoise

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ine-leaves and poppy, Wings.

Images and Mythologies of Venus and Love in the Warburg Institute Library and Iconographic Database