It is not known whether this meant the merging of two deities or whether Cloacina was just an epithet used for the goddess Venus. According to Roman tradition, the cult of Cloacina (or Cluacina ...

Around the second or third century C.E., a gold ring bearing the likeness of the Roman ... of Art. The nicolo gem depicts ...

Joining them this year is an altogether different proposition, the ‘Venus ... the allure of art déco and the style of the 1930s-1940s, which often inspires Armani’s furniture and fashion creations.

Out of the trash and into the museum. That’s the likely outcome for a Roman-era Venus statuette excavated in February from a former trash heap in Brittany, northwestern France. The well ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Given the goddess’s delight in ... would found Rome. So, Venus was considered the godmother of the Roman Republic and of its imperial ambitions.

The Roman goddess of love and her companions ... Regardless, in 1919, “up it pops again,” he added. “Venus” ended up in the hands of a London art dealer, who hoped to sell it to the ...

In the catalogue accompanying the show, the painting’s title is given as Untitled [Woman with Roman Torso (Venus)]. Classical art was a recurring theme for Basquiat. As Larry Gagosian says ...