Saturday, December 22, 2007

A gentleman always takes his helmet off






















Mars Undressing Venus, Paolo Veronese, ca.1570

Image from The Web Gallery of Art

2 comments:

  1. Yeah, but that one wasn't a gentleman! As attested by the wonderfully naughty tryst with Aphrodite, which cost them both the ridicule of all the Gods, when Hephaestus (Aphorodite's husband) caught them in a golden web on the bed!

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  2. The best ones never are--gentlemen, that is. ;-)

    You know, I think somebody could do a year's worth of blog posts with nothing but artistic depictions of this myth. There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of paintings of it.

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