Venus Without Arms - New Orleans, LA
N 29° 59.155 W 090° 05.665
15R E 780336 N 3320779
This Venus, goddess of fertility, is located at the Besthoff Sculpture Gardens, inside New Orleans City Park.
Waymark Code: WMD8D5
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 12/04/2011
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French artist Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) created this bronze in 1922.He often presented his female nudes as both full figures and partial, in this case without arms. This practice was inspired by Rodin's work. Also Maillol felt that without arms, the viewers attention was focused more fully on the female torso.
Venus, the Roman goddess of fertility. She was the equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. On August 15, 293 BC, her oldest known temple was dedicated. Venus has 13 epithets. In some Latin mythology Cupid was the son of Venus and Mars, the god of war. In other times, Venus was understood to be the consort of Vulcan. Virgil, in compliment to his patron Augustus and the gens Julia, made Venus, whom Julius Caesar had adopted as his protectress, the ancestor of the Roman people by way of its legendary founder Aeneas and his son Iulus.
Wikipedia Page on Venus