Venus - Marchetti

Venus - MarchettiA print of Marchetti's Venus a 19th century Italian reproductive engraving of the goddess of love, one of the standard subjects of the whole Western print tradition after the antique. Venus Aphrodite in the Greek is the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and generation. Her canonical sculpted types run from the Aphrodite of Knidos of Praxiteles in the 4th century BC through the Venus de Milo and the Capitoline Venus into the whole Roman and

won the sorceress Medea to his side at Colchis

they were inseparable in life

A print of Hercules and the Lion — a third treatment of the hero wrestling the Nemean Lion in the first of his Twelve Labours

inherited from Zeus

The statue was carved from a single block of Carrara marble and is now housed in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence

the hero's battle with the many-headed water-serpent of Lerna

The vase was acquired by the Medici family in the 16th century for their Roman villa and moved to Florence in the 18th

He was the patron deity of sailors and fishermen

serpent for a tail

teeth already at his thigh

The finest surviving examples of this subject hang today at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

so it's not certain which of them are specifically depicted here