Last week the Ferargil Galleries offered for sale a statuet of Venus which has been kept obscure for many years in the gallery of a Manhattan collector. It is the work, experts say, of Praxiteles ...

The painting, the Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, is one of the most celebrated and reproduced images in the history of Western art—and one ... into a Christian symbol of baptism, but ...

100 years of the National Art Collections Fund ... powerful paintings—the Venus has come to be an ideal subject for appropriation by contemporary artists, as a symbol of feminine beauty or ...

or Venus, figurines carved millenniums later. The figurine “radically changes our views of the context and meaning of the earliest Paleolithic art,” its discoverer, archaeologist Nicholas J.

The good news: A tall, twisty giant "Venus" sculpture is coming to the Mid-Market area. The bad news: Most of us will not be able to see it. That said, Argent's work is a piece of public art and ...