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    Venus and Cupid with a Satyr (around 1524-1527) is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Antonio da Correggio. It is now in the Musée du Louvre...
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    Antonio da Correggio (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    numismatic. The picture once called Antiope and the Satyr is now correctly identified as Venus and Cupid with a Satyr. Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle depicts...
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    Venus with a Satyr and Two Cupids or The Bacchante (La Baccante) is a 1588-1590 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, now in the Uffizi in Florence...
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    depicts the deities Cupid, Mercury, and Venus. A preparatory sketch for it survives in the British Museum. Venus and Cupid with a Satyr (now in the Louvre)...
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  • The Most Beautiful of Absolute Disasters, a 2005 work by Shane A. Johnstone Venus and Cupid with a Satyr, a c. 1528 painting by Correggio This disambiguation...
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    The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain...
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    Mona Lisa (category Pages with Italian IPA)
    Salon d'Automne and was sarcastically described as "la Joconde à la cuiller" (Mona Lisa with a spoon) by art critic Louis Vauxcelles on the front page of...
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    Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Venus watches Mars sleep while two infant satyrs play, carrying his helmet (a sallet) and lance as another rests inside...
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    The Venus Genetrix (also spelled genitrix) is a sculptural type which shows the Roman goddess Venus in her aspect of Genetrix ("foundress of the family")...
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    depicts Saint Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. Christ is shown grappling with a sacrificial lamb symbolizing his Passion as the...
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    Liberty Leading the People (category Articles with short description)
    A bare-breasted “woman of the people” with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept and Goddess of Liberty, accompanied by a young boy brandishing a pistol...
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    presented the portrait in a naturalistic and sympathetic fashion, at variance with physiognomic theory of the era, which maintained a connection between external...
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    Winged Victory of Samothrace (category Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the Louvre)
    part in plaster, attached the left marble wing with a metal frame, and replaced the entire right wing with a plaster model. But he did not reconstruct the...
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    The Worship of Venus is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Titian completed between 1518 and 1519, housed at the Museo del Prado in Madrid...
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  • Thumbnail for Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb
    Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb is an oil painting by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, one of the masters of the German Renaissance. It was...
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    coming of Venus, or the daughter of Venus from an unseemly union between the goddess and a mortal. Venus is offended, and commissions Cupid to work her...
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    Venus, Cupid, Bacchus, and Ceres is a painting that was completed by Peter Paul Rubens between 1612–1613. It is a depiction of four figures from Roman...
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    Grande Odalisque (category Articles with short description)
    Caroline Murat of Naples, and was finished in 1814. Ingres drew upon works such as Dresden Venus by Giorgione, and Titian's Venus of Urbino as inspiration...
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    adorned with a golden ring, a symbol of richness, and a necklace decorated with a sapphire and a pearl. The use of a parapet in portraits was a common...
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    series of Jupiter's Loves was conceived after the success of Venus and Cupid with a Satyr. Correggio painted four canvasses in total, although others had...
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    History of the nude in art (category Articles with short description)
    forms and figures, but also in the chromatic games and lighting effects, influenced by Leonardo's sfumato. In works such as Venus and Cupid with a Satyr (or...
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    The Venus of Arles is a 1.94-metre-high (6.4 ft) sculpture of Venus at the Musée du Louvre. It is in Hymettus marble and dates to the end of the 1st century...
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    Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne (category Articles with short description)
    Français, État des arts du dessin en France à l'ouverture du XIX° siècle, Salon de 1806, p. 177-180 - Quoted and translated in Tinterow, Conisbee et al. 1999...
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    them stands a hunter, with large dogs, and at far left another huntsman blows a horn. Over Venus' head, Cupid perches in a tree, with an arrow in his bow...
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    Greek-Egyptian monk and member of the Institut d'Égypte, is depicted among the clergymen, standing to the right of the Bishop, with a beard and a red hood. The...
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    as seen with the addition of Cupid scattering roses, the Hours, and the Graces. The symbolic meaning of the rose-crowned nymph on Venus's lap remains...
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    Self-Portrait with Julie (Self-Portrait à la Grecque) is an oil-on-wood painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, created in 1789 at the height of the French...
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    Hadrian and Sabina as Mars and Venus is a 1.73-metre (5 ft 8 in) tall marble statue of 120–140 AD (with restorations of c. 170–175). The male figure originally...
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    Louvre (category Art museums and galleries in Paris)
    arrondissement (district or ward) and home to some of the most canonical works of Western art, including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory. The museum...
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    Code of Hammurabi (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    with Shamash, the Babylonian sun god and god of justice. Below the relief are about 4,130 lines of cuneiform text: one fifth contains a prologue and epilogue...
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