has claimed to know exactly what is happening in the painting, doing away with any historical mystery. They note that the title of the piece is “wrong”. Venus, the Roman goddess of love ...

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 ...

Gagosian’s Paris gallery has staged a show pairing an ancient Roman sculpture with work by Jean-Michel Basquiat. The sculpture of the goddess Venus juxtaposed with Basquiat’s 1982 painting ...

That’s the likely outcome for a Roman-era Venus statuette excavated in February ... from the sea,” a form portrayed in well-known paintings by Sandro Botticelli and Titian.

Ranging over centuries and geography, and migrating across syllabi, the book was as familiar to Dutch paintings experts as ...

Archaeologists discovered rare paintings, showing Helen of Troy and other Greek figures, in the lost Roman city of Pompeii 2000 years after the deadly volcanic eruption. The paintings were ...

creating a statue of the Roman mythological goddess of love, sex, beauty and fertility, Venus, and placing her against a heap of rags he used to clean the surface of his “Mirror Paintings ...

They’ve often damaged frames, and now appear to have damaged a painting ... of the Roman goddess looking at her face in a mirror, originally titled “The Toilet of Venus” — is undergoing ...