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Venus is the Goddess of Love. She is also known as Aprhrodite in Greek myths.

The apple she holds represents winning a "beauty contest" of sorts where the mortal Paris of the city of Troy was asked to judge who was the fairest: Hera, Athena, Aphrodite. All three goddesses attempted to bribe Paris. Aphrodite offered Paris the most beautiful woman in the world, a woman named Helen. Paris accepted, married Helen, and thus began the Trojan War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_of_Paris_(m...

Thus the statue represents both the goddess of love; how beauty is linked with love; and also to an extant, the price man will pay for love,

Two other famous Venus statues include the following:

Details of Alexandros of Antioch's Venus de Milo and Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.

If you'd like a Celtic love story with some famous painting look up the following;

Tristan and Isolde by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1902.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_and_Iseult