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[beautyofaphrodite]

The Birth of Venus

I’ve started making posts where I dive into certain artistic depictions of Lady Aphrodite. Many are technically Lady Venus but they’re generally depicted the same. I’ve created one on The Birth of Venus by Botticelli already, and an anonymous person requested The Birth of Venus by Cabanel, so here you go!

Alexandre Cabanel

Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter born on September 28, 1823, in Montpellier, France and died on January 23, 1889 in Paris. He tended to paint historical, classical, and religious subjects in the “academic style”. Cabanel was Napoleon III’s favored painter.

Description of the Painting

The Goddess Venus, depicted as pale with long, orange hair, lays on the waves, looking to be asleep or just waking up. Above her, the Erotes, winged babies, blow on seashells and watch over her.

About the Painting

The birth of Venus was painted in 1863 using oil on canvas. Its dimensions are 150 cm × 250 cm (59 in × 98 in), and it is displayed in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Two smaller versions from 1864 and 1875 are on display in the Dahesh Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When painted, this artwork was immediately purchased by Napoleon III for his personal collection.

[ravinoforre]

I finally jumped on the trend too, this has been in my head for days lmao

[moonlightsdreaming]

Sailor Moon Cosmos | Visual Guide

[asoftepiloguemylove]

YOU'RE IN MY VEINS, YOU FUCK

Henry Miller from a letter to Brenda Venus Dear, Dear Brenda: The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus // boygenius We're In Love // Francisco de Zurbarán Agnus Dei // Katie Maria I used to be a hole in the ground (via @heavensghost) // Rafael Nicolás Angels Before Man // Céline Sciamma Portrait de la jeune fille en feu // Kate Moss in a text message to Pete Doherty // Sophocles Antigone // Joan Didion South and West // Richard Siken Editors Pages: The Long and Short of It // Japanese Breakfast Boyish // VIVINOS Alien Stage; "ROUND 6" // Li-Young Lee I Loved You Before I Was Born // Hannibal; "Secondo" dir. Vincenzo Natali // Hozier Francesca

[spacemanspiff0fficial]

They always say if u love smth then let it go 😔 as a long-standing Sidon girlie I was struggling w coming to grips I fear (which ended up not being all that hard to do bc Lady Yona is so cute I love her.......)

Before that happened I did manage to snap some photos mid-fish domestic. In case I had one last fighting chance

[ivettaflowerblooom]

Venus by Alexandre Cabanel, 1875.

[arttemisiia]

Lady Aphrodite 🐚🫧

Digital Offering🏛️

[devotee-of-aphrodite-venus]

[dangerousperfectionparadise]

Artist graphic by Sidney Deng on Twitter

[amengaga]

[beautyofaphrodite]

Happy Friday!

Friday is Aphrodite’s day every week and I like to honor Her by writing a little prayer. Today’s topic is self-care when it’s hard. I chose this because as someone with depression who is also a major people pleaser, it’s very hard for me to put myself first or care about myself at all, and I know I’m mot the only one who struggles with that.

Note: I do not write prayers often but am practicing, so this may not be good. Sorry!

Loving Goddess Aphrodite

Of the sea (Pontia)

Of the sky (Ourania)

Of the dark (Melainis)

I ask you to please help me with this request.

She who rules over love of all forms,

Assist me in caring for myself.

Help me to see me the way you do

Beautiful, Loving, and Human

And help me to treat myself like I deserve

with patience, kindness, and care.

For when the waves of my emotions

crash against my heart,

and when the skies are filled with sorrow

When all I can see is darkness,

You are the light.

I thank you for all that you have already done

for I now know how you see me.

I ask you to help me to take care of my mind and body

For I know that I am full of beauty.

[albertvictoria-art]

Today is the 10th anniversary of Lady Gaga's "ARTPOP", and I wanted to celebrate it by making an illustration inspired by several "Seashell Girl" looks that she wore during the promotion of the album.

[moonlightsdreaming]

SAILOR MOON X SANRIO CHARACTERS

[skarlitt]

Aphrodite Devotees y'all are NEVER gonna believe this

If you saw my previous post you'd know I went to an antique store where I found an Aphrodite sculpture as well as a little brass bowl with a dove and lamb engraved onto it. So that was kind of my first sign that I was being called to by Lady Aphrodite, so I went and bought those to keep on my altar.

Anyways, today shit got even weirder.

I was driving home when this bright white dove (!!!) flew RIGHT next to my car window on my side. I didn't get a pic cuz I was driving and in such disbelief (I don't think I had ever seen one irl before), then I watched it fly away. It was most definitely a dove, brightest white I've ever seen on a bird.

Fast forward, I've been home for a few hours when I remembered I put out a jar of water with a few rose quartzes in my backyard to charge in last night's full moon. So I went to go pick it up- except I stopped because this HARE was sleeping right next to it.

So I was like 'wait...are hares sacred to a certain deity?' Checked Google and Theoi.com and yup! Sacred to Aphrodite just like the dove! Thank GOD I got a pic this time. I haven't gotten the jar back yet cuz he's still out there sleeping next to it, but I'll pick it up later when he leaves :) I guess I gotta go pick up something to make as an offering to Aphrodite cuz WOW.

If anyone has advice on what to offer/how to talk to her I'd really REALLY appreciate it! I'm a Dionysus and Hermes devotee so I really don't know what to expect lmao

[yourartur]

My love letter to ‘ARTPOP’ 🔵✨

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[aphrodite-kallisti]

All passion enslaved to Aphrodite, her chains beyond silver or gold Where time will forever surrender, to love—never purchased or sold