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Humanities project help!!!?

For my humanities project, we are asked to describe artworks that have to do with a universal theme we were given-mine being love. My teacher recommended the artwork Pauline Borghese as Venus. The problem is i dont see how it has to do with love. Will someone please explain this to me?

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  • 8 years ago
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    Since we are talking humanities - as a starting point you need to remind yourself of the function of Venus as the goddess of Love in ancient mythology. Then you might read between the lines of this Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Victrix_%28Cano... and point to the fact that a husband had it carved of his wife for exhibition in their (expensive) home/mansion/palace. Note also that an upper class woman actually posing in the nude was considered shocking then as well as now - maybe less now.

    If you still don't see a connection, perhaps you are limiting your definition of love to one or two of the dozens of uses of the word (which can make it almost meaningless in a specific application) - no the statue does not have much of anything to do with Christian love or love thy neighbor.

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    4 years ago

    such loads of excellent issues to go with between! you may contemporary portray by potential of Picasso, Van Gogh, Degas, Toulouse-Latrec, Renoir, Klee; in basic terms check out the artwork books on your library. For dance, there is Isadora Duncan, Mikhail Barishnokov, Bob Fosse, for starters. The action picture "White Nights" had some staggering scenes blending Gregory Hines' faucet with Barishnokov's ballet, even the plot is purely a motor vehicle for the dancing. maximum suitable desires.

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