in Hesiod's Theogony and in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, before turning to the depiction of her in two early Attic black-figure vases, the Sophilos dinos at the British Museum and the Franois vase, which have been neglected in discussing Hestia's anthropomorphic natur...
Lizard-Slayer) -- "Praxitelean S-curve" Hermes with the infant Dionysos[Note:generally taken as an original datingc. 350 B.C., but more likely by another Praxiteles working in 2nd century B.C.] Aphrodite of Knidos (Knidian Aphrodite) (c. 350 B.C.) Scopas -- pedimental sculpture ...
who carved a woman from ivory so beautiful and realistic that he fell in love with his creation and lost interest in all human women. On the festival day of Aphrodite (Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation, whose Roman counterpart is Venus), he ...
Inpart 1, we examined the repeated claim that the hell panel of Jheronimus Bosch’s painting of 1495–1505,The Garden of Earthly Delights, includes readable Gregorian notation painted on a sinner’s bottom, and provided evidence that this is not the case. In part 2 we explore the message a...