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    Venus Factor Review Every woman in the world desperately desires to have an attractive body shape and size. However‚ due to the new lifestyles and eating habits in the modern society‚ some women have gained weight massively. Overweight destroys the shape and the size of the woman’s body. Therefore‚ most of them have been looking for solutions to reduce the unwanted body weight. Venus Factor is a fantastic weight loss program and a solution to many people. It is comprehensive and recommendable for

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    Analyzing a Stunning Painting: Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” Mythology has been part of the people for a long time now. People have adopted stories that make it possible to enlighten on how some aspects used to be in the past. Myths are aspects that form part of every culture‚ and are mostly used to give a meaning to varying issues. Since the inception of art‚ artists have developed the tendency of being influenced by myths in the development of varied artworks. To some extent‚ the artworks have

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    Sam Bugay Intro to Visual Arts Bryce Speed November 30‚ 2012 Faces of Sexuality Sexuality has been a face of a rt for many centuries. Olympia by Edouard Manet and Venus of Urbino by Titian represent the face for female domination and the ability to lure men. As we look at these two different faces of sexuality‚ we will briefly touch on the artist’s lives‚ and explore the content of the two works. Edouard Manet was born in Paris in 1832. He was considered to be the founder of modern art as

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    History of Western Art Alex Loewen 3/17/16 Venus at Vulcan’s Forge The painting that I chose to write about is Francois Boucher’s Venus at Vulcan’s Forge. This painting is a collection of four paintings completed for Jean-Francois Bergeret de Frouville. Boucher painted this particular painting in 1769. In the painting Venus is seen presenting her mortal son Aeneas and she wants Vulcan to make a sword for her son. The center of the painting is Venus floating on a cloud with Aeneas while Vulcan

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    Sandro Botticelli’ created the painting The Birth of Venus in 1480 during the Renaissance Movement. The painting shows Venus floating on a seashell. Off to her right is the god Zephyr with his wife. Zephyr is blowing Venus towards land. The image on her left displays a woman ready to cover up her image with a brightly intense red garment (Getlein‚ 2008‚ p. 398). To understand the paintings contextual properties‚ “The word renaissance means “rebirth‚” and it refers to the revival of interest in

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    Very often‚ people tell Jacque they really like this direction‚ but it won’t happen because he forgot one thing. After over 70 years of working on this direction‚ to have people think he forgot this one thing is amazing to me. They say “you forgot about Human Nature.” So I would like to discuss this. I would like to address the concept of environment and how it affects human behavior. The study of human behavior‚ in many ways‚ is still in it’s early stages. In all other fields of science‚ they

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    Venus de Milo is a marble sculpture designed and created by Alexandros of Antioch. The sculpture is believed to resemble Aphrodite‚ the goddess of love. She is presented with a beautiful face‚ wavy pulled back hair and a draped cloth resting at the waist. Venus de Milo is filled with mystery due to her missing arms and where she was found. There are raised questions if Venus de Milo is Aphrodite or if she is the sea goddess‚ Amphitrite. The mysterious sculpture has raised this question. What was

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    Bronzino’s Venus‚ Cupid‚ Folly‚ and Time (c. mid 1540’s) is an astounding painting which includes intricate symbolism.# The painting has provoked much scholarly controversy and‚ to this day no one art historian can agree on what the overall idea of the painting is.# One source says that Bronzino was commissioned for this work not only as a demonstration of painterly excellence‚ but as a demonstration of Florentine intellectual cleverness‚ necessary both for the invention of the imagery and for

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    Once hung in a Medici villa‚ Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus‚ ca. 1485‚ is one of the most treasured artworks of the Renaissance. The composition is opened up more‚ compared to Botticelli’s Primavera‚ a similar styled painting done a few years prior. The central figure in this tempera painting is the goddess Venus (also known as Aphrodite in Greek mythology). She graces us with her presence by floating to the shore‚ pushed from the winds of gods (Zephyr accompanied by Chloris)‚ on a seashell

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    The Birth of Venus (1635) ------------------------------------------------- Nicolas Poussin ------------------------------------------------- Sean E. Masih Art History 102 August 25‚ 2013 While the Philadelphia Museum of Art may not house some of the more famous artwork from the Baroque period‚ their acquisition of Poussin’s “Birth of Venus” was nothing short of a savvy purchase. Hungry for Western currency‚ the painting was sold by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in 1930 under

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