Venus (Paintings of). Venus Anadyom´enê, or Venus rising from the sea and wringing her golden tresses, by Apellês. Apellês also put his name to a “Sleeping Venus.” Tradition says that Campaspê (afterwards his wife) was the model of his Venus.
The Rhodian Venus, referred to by Campbell, in his Pleasures of Hope, ii., is the Venus spoken of by Pliny, xxxv. 10, from which Shakespeare has drawn his picture of Cleopatra in her barge (Antony and Cleopatra, act ii. sc. 2). The Rhodian was Protog´enês.
When first the Rhodian’s mimic art arrayed
The queen of Beauty in her Cyprian shade,
The happy master mingled in his piece
Each look that charmed him in the fair of Greece ...
Love on the picture smiled. Expression poured
Her mingling spirit there, and Greece adored.
Pleasures of Hope, ii. (1799).
Venus (Statues of). The Cnidian Venus, a nude statue, bought by the Cnidians. By Praxitĕlês.