The Transit of Venus
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06 Wednesday May 2015
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Life of the Children of the Moon and Life of the Children of the Sun
by Georg Pencz (1500-1550), in the Folge der Planeten.
Renaissance Engravings of the Influences of the Planets
03 Sunday May 2015
William Blake Richmond’s Venus and Anchises (1889 or 1890).
Anchises major claim to fame in Greek mythology is that he was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite (and in Roman mythology, the lover of Venus). One version is that Aphrodite pretended to be a Phrygian princess and seduced him for nearly two weeks of lovemaking. Anchises learned that his lover was a goddess only nine months later, when she revealed herself and presented him with the infant Aeneas. Aphrodite had warned him that if he boasted of the affair, he would be blasted by the thunderbolt of Zeus. He did and was scorched and/or crippled.
17 Tuesday Feb 2015
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24 Saturday Jan 2015
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the storm spirits by Evelyn De Morgan (1900)
Evelyn De Morgan often chose to portray the elements within her work. Here, Rain, Lighting and Thunder are personified as strong, beautiful women with billowing drapery.
24 Saturday Jan 2015
14 Wednesday Jan 2015
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Thesis plate with Pallas Athena in armour riding on a chariot drawn by two lions, while an eagle rises to Jupiter above; by the lions is a banderole ‘Aequabunt viribus ausus’. 1660s Engraving
© The Trustees of the British Museum / http://www.britishmuseum.org
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