The Coan Venus, a draped statue, bought by the Coans. By Praxitelês.
The Venus de’ Medici, a statue dug up in several pieces at Hadrian’s villa, near Tiv´oli (seventeenth century), and placed for a time at the Medici palace at Rome, whence its name. It was the work of Cleom´enês, the Athenian. All one arm and part of the other were restored by Bandinelli. In 1680 this statue was removed to the Uffizi gallery at Florence. It was removed to Paris by Napoleon, but was afterwards restored.
The Venus of Arles, with a mirror in the right hand and an apple in the left. This statue is ancient, but the mirror and apple are by Girardin.
The Venus of Milo. The “Venus Victorious” is called the “Venus of Milo,” because it was brought from the island of Milo, in the Ægēan Sea, by Admiral Dumont d’Urville, in 1820. It is one of the chefs d’œuvre of antiquity, and is now in the Louvre of Paris.
The Pauline Venus, by Canōva. Modelled from Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese.
I went by chance into the room of the Pauline Venus; my mouth will taste bitter all day. How venial! how gaudy and vile she is with her gilded upholstery! It is the most hateful thing that ever wasted marble.--Ouida, Ariadnê, i. 1.
The Venus Pandēmos, the sensual and vulgar Venus (Greek, pan-dêmos, for the vulgar or populace generally); as opposed to the “Uranian Venus,” the beau-ideal of beauty and loveliness.
Amongst the deities from the upper chamber a mortal came, the light, lewd woman, who had bared her charms to live for ever here in marble, in counterfeit of the Venus Pandēmos.--Ouida, Ariadnê, i. 1.
Gibson’s Venus, slightly tinted, was shown in the International Exhibition of 1862.
Venus, the highest throw with the four tali or three tesseræ. The best cast of the tali (or four-sided dice) was four different numbers; but the best cast of the tesseræ (or ordinary dice) was three sixes. The worst throw was called canis--three aces in tesseræ and four aces in tali.