https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)
an excellent translation of the homeric hymn to aphrodite ...
http://www.uh.edu/~cldue/texts/aphrodite.html
https://podtail.com/podcast/let-s-talk-about-myths-baby-a-greek-roman-mytholog/xxv-aphrodite-sometimes-good-sometimes-bad-always-/
etc, etc.
Images , no sculptures, start here ...
Greece, 460 BC
more will be added, as and when ...
meidias painter, 450 to 400BC
greece, 420 BC
apuleian pottery detail, c 3rd century BC
pompeii, 25BC
roman, first century AD
matfre ermengaud, early 1300s
french roman de la rose, mid 1300s
Germany, 1445
french, c1450
da predis, 1460
bodmer mss, 1480ish
botticelli c.1485
botticelli c.1486
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus
harley mss 4425, french, 1490s
french, 1496
giorgione, 1510
giorgione, 1510
titian, 1515
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_and_Profane_Love
titian, 1520
palma vecchio, 1520ish
lorenzo lotto c.1525
corregio, 1525
palma vecchio, 1528
cranach 1528
cranach, 1531
cranach, 1532
titian, 1534
bronzino c.1545
master of the fontainebleau school, 1550
veronese, 1555
Bronzino, 1555
paris bordone, 1555
titian c.1555
lambert sustris c.1560
jan metsys, 1561
veronese, 1562
cesar van everdingen, 1565
titian, 1570
veronese, 1570
giorgio ghisi, 1570
allori, after 1570
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angelo del moro battista , 1573
saenredam, 1575
lavinia fontana, guess 1575
veronese, 1580
luca giordano 1580
veronese c.1585
carracci, 1588
spranger, 1590
carracci, 1590
lavinia fontana, 1592
collaert et al, c.1600
goltzius c.1600
carracci, 1603
saenredam, 1604
wtewael, 1608
saenredam after bloemart, c1610
Valesio, early 1600s
goltzius, 1606
copied from titian by rubens, 1610
goltzius, 1614
rubens c.1615
goltzius, 1616
german liber amicorum, 1616
brueghel, 1617
brueghel with rubens, 1618
brueghel ?with rubens?, 1617/1618
poussin, 1624
artemesia gentileschi c.1625
saenredam, 1631
van Dyck, 1632
pontormo, 1633
wtewael, before 1638
rubens, 1638
pietro testa, c1640
hollar after elseheimer, after 1640
le nain, 1641
jan de miel, 1645
velasquez c1650
cornelis de vos, before 1651
jacob van loo, 1654
schalcken, before 1685
sebastiano ricci, 1690
luca giordano, 1692 to 1702
colombel, 1697
sebastiano ricci, 1700
Watteau, 1718
sebastiano ricci, 1720ish
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lemoyne, 1729
boucher, 1740
boucher, 1740
meissen, 1745
louis-michel vanloo, 1748
boucher, date unknown
boucher, 1749
fragonard, date unknown
fragonard, 1755
giovanni battista tiepolo, 1758
giovanni battista tiepolo, 1764
boucher, 1765
wright of derby, 1769
fragonard, 1772
reynolds, 1786
reynolds, 1788
canova, 1799
rowlandson, c1800
rowlandson, c.1800
benjamin west, 1802
marie constance mayer, 1805
canova, 1808
paul landon, 1810
rowlandson, 1810
regnault, 1812 guesstimate
j b regnault, 1815
canova, 1815
william blake, 1817
david, 1824
guillemot, 1827
william etty, 1824
william etty, 1835
chasseriau, 1836
pietro tenerani, 1840s guessing
ingres, 1848
godfrey sykes, c1850
Anon, 1860s
cabanel, 1863
manet, 1863
rossetti, 1864
leighton, 1867
burne-jones, 1868
burne-jones, 1875
falero, 1882
bougoureau, 1879
moreau, guessing 1880
from Fliegende Blatter, 1884
alma-tadema, after 1888
richmond, 1889
Liebig Company, 1892
adolf hirmy-hirschl, 1893
liebig company, 1896
sylvia starr, 1898
waterhouse, 1899
mucha, etoile du matin, 1902
vuillard, 1905
orpen, 1910
byam shaw, 1911
pogany, 1911
odilon redon, 1912
norman lindsay, 1912
georges barbier, ?1912
kuhn-regnier, 1916
andre lambert, 1917
georges barbier, 1921
norman lindsay, 1924
norman lindsay, maybe later
dali, 1925
la vie parisienne, 1928
souter, c.1930
designer travis banton, 1932
film poster, 1932
george spencer watson, 1933
edward baird, 1934
man ray, 1936
magritte, 1937
alberto vargas, 1937
norman lindsay, 1938
sepp hilz, 1939
sepp hilz and model
david jones, 1940
paul delvaux, 1943
1945
paul delvaux, 1947
mark severin, 1948
ava gardner, 1948
italo zetti, 1960s maybe
rauschenberg, 1964
filllum, 1969
eric fraser, c1970
anonymous illustrator, guessing 1970s
delvaux, c1975
cadino, 1978
ernst fuchs, 1980
warhol, c1984
val denham, 1997
yayoi kusama, 1998
godfried donkor, 2007
joanna chrodok, 2009
rip cronk, 2010
benitez, 2010
jana brike, 2013
annie liebowitz, 2015
miriam escofet, 2015
fedini, c2016
jeremy chong, 2016
austine read, 2018
peter zelei, 2018
anne athena, 2019
more to follow as and when, possibly maybe, but not in chronological order ...
