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VENUS ANADYOMENE (Rising, i.e., from the sea). See Apelles; also, Venus, Birth of.

Venus Anadyomene, Titian, Bridgewater House, London.

By Dominique Ingres, Duc d'Aumale, Château de Chantilly. The goddess, yet humid with the sea water, in which she is standing, is twisting her blond locks while cupids play around her and caress her feet and limbs. Begun at Rome in 1808; finished in 1848 for Frédéric Reiset, conservator of the Louvre. Engraved by Morse.—Ch. Blanc, Life, 161; Larousse, i. 311.

By Titian, Bridgewater House, London; canvas. Venus, nude, standing in the sea, which covers her knees, one arm raised to hold her long hair, the other combing its tresses; beside her floats a shell, from which sometimes called Venus of the Shell. Painted in Ferrara in 1523. We first hear of it in the Collection of Queen Christina of Sweden; thence passed to the Orléans Collection, and sold in 1800 to Duke of Bridgewater for £800. Engraved by St. Aubin; Réveil.—C. & C., Titian, i. 276; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 31, 497; Campori, Raccolta, 341; Larousse, i. 311; Réveil, xii. 841.

Subject treated also by Giulio Romano, Palazzo Spada, Rome; Cornelis de Vos, Madrid Museum; Heinrich Lehmann (1855); Claude Dubufe (Salon, 1859); Jules Joseph Meynier (Salon, 1863); Amaury Duval (1863), Lille Museum; Charles Chaplin (Salon, 1867); Émile Bin (Salon, 1874).


VENUS, BARBERIGO. See Venus with the Mirror.


VENUS, BIRTH OF, Sandro Botticelli, Uffizi, Florence; canvas, figures life-size. Venus, standing in a shell in the middle of the sea, is wafted to the shore by two flying figures emblematical of the winds; figure at right represents Spring. Painted for Cosmo de' Medici's villa of Castello; placed in Uffizi in 1815.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 312; C. & C., Italy, ii. 423; Soc. Ed. Gall. di Firenze, Pl. 24.

Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, Uffizi, Florence.

By William Adolphe Bouguereau, Luxembourg Museum; canvas, H. 9 ft. 10 in. × 7 ft. Venus, full-length, arranging her hair, which falls in a mass below her hips, stands

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