Venus (mythology)
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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,
Venus rising from the sea, alluding to the birth-myth of Greek Aphrodite. From a garden wall at the Casa della Venere in conchiglia, Pompeii. Before AD 79
A 2nd- or 3rd-century bronze figurine of Venus, in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
Venus and Mars, with Cupid attending, in a wall painting from Pompeii
Imperial image of Venus suggesting influence from Syria or Palestine, or from the cult of Isis
Cupid
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In classical mythology, Cupid is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the god of war Mars. He is also known as Amor.
Venus (mythology)
…in whole-cloth borrowings from the literary Greek mythology of her counterpart, Aphrodite, but with significant exceptions. In some Latin mythology, Cupid was the son of Venus and Mars, the god of war. At other times, or in parallel myths and theologies, Venus was understood to be the consort of Vulcan…
Sculpture of Cupid, by Bertel Thorvaldsen
Cupid Carving His Bow (1620s) by François Duquesnoy, Bode Museum, Berlin
A blindfolded, armed Cupid (1452/66) by Piero della Francesca
Edme Bouchardon, Cupid, 1744, National Gallery of Art