Eksempler på brug af Venus with the apple på Engelsk og deres oversættelser til Dansk
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A22 Venus with the Apple, cf.
Thiele's poem about Venus with the Apple, cf.
Venus with the apple Figurine No. 108 Venus with the apple artist Kai Nielsen from Bing& Grondahl.
Bertel Thorvaldsen, detail of Venus with the Apple, in bronze, plaster, and marble.
Venus with the Apple has its literary basis in the Greek mythological tale of the Judgment of Paris.
Christian Horneman helped us to see that Venus with the Apple is sexy, not chaste.
It should also be noted that Thorvaldsen originally operated with a Cupid figure as a support for Venus with the Apple.
Thorvaldsen's Venus with the Apple is here interpreted as a statue that relates to both of these semantic layers in the myth.
If what is written between the lines is to be believed, Venus with the Apple made old Horneman into a"horny man"(so to speak) once more.
Venus with the Apple is a worthy successor to Aphrodite of Knidos. Unlike the latter, however, the former is not of the Venus Pudica type.
Beyond converging on this description,the majority of interpreters also agree that Venus with the Apple depicts a particularly chaste variant of the goddess of love.
Conclusion Venus with the Apple offers a fine example of how complicated it can be to interpret Thorvaldsen's sculptures on an iconographic and allegorical level.
If we now dare to remove the mental fig leaf that until now has prevented us from seeing the Priapus,we can reconstitute a non-prudish interpretation of Venus with the Apple as follows.
An essential basis for this reinterpretation of Venus with the Apple has been the testimony to the statue's sex appeal provided by Christian Horneman in his letter to Thorvaldsen.
In this context, the question and challenge facing us are whether we can removethe veil of prudery that hangs before our eyes and instead behold Venus with the Apple with Horneman's lusty gaze.
These bronze figures include two in poses orsituations that correspond to those I claim we see in Venus with the Apple, namely, that Venus 1 lifts up her robe and thereby 2 reveals an erect phallus.
Venus with the Apple represents a sequence within the Greco-Roman myth of the Judgment of Paris, in which Venus regards the trophy that she has received from Paris on account of her winning beauty.
Pietro Galli(?) and Wilhelm Hopfgarten, modeled after Thorvaldsen,Jason with the Golden Fleece and Venus with the Apple, 1821-1825, The Royal Danish Collections, Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, inv.
This dinner set included a series of Thorvaldsen's most potent divine and heroic masculine figures, together with an equivalent number of busty icons of femininity,including the wondrously beautiful Venus with the Apple.
In 1804, the year he began work on Venus with the Apple, Thorvaldsen took a monthlong study trip to Naples and the ancient towns of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae, which were destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Thorvaldsen used tree stumps frequently as supports for his sculptures; but as far as I can tell,it is only in Venus with the Apple that the proportions and shape of the tree stump simultaneously prompt associations to a phallus.
Venus with the Apple is commonly described as a faithful reproduction of its literary source, even though the artwork omits all of the story's characters apart from Venus, winner of the contest.
These attributes can be detected in Thorvaldsen's sketches as well; but in the final,free-standing statue of Venus with the Apple-for reasons that we will now investigate-Thorvaldsen chose to omit the usual Cupid figure as Venus's support in favor of an unusually shaped tree stump.
References Venus with the Apple(and with the Tree Stump) In presenting the following reinterpretation of Bertel Thorvaldsen's sculpture Venus with the Apple, my aim is to wrest the statue free of the puritanical gaze that has been fixed upon it for nearly two centuries.
From Horneman's point of view, then, Thorvaldsen's Venus with the Apple was so physically appealing that she outshone even the young women of the real world, and indeed in a such a way as to rouse certain specific feelings in Horneman's nether regions.
These bronze figures include two in poses orsituations that correspond to those I claim we see in Venus with the Apple, namely, that Venus 1 lifts up her robe and thereby 2 reveals an erect phallus. One such figure is a bronze statuette of the Greco-Roman fertility god Priapus(Gr.: Priapos) in his so-called anasyromenos-position.
Thorvaldsen's Venus with the Apple is Venus Victrix,the beauty queen who has received her trophy in the form of a golden fruit; esoterically, she is Venus Priapus, the naked, nubile goddess who has roused the man's spirit to activity with a single flick of her finger, which has now borne fruit: she is fertilized and fructified.