18 Metaphors for venus

Your Venus once was a Platonic queen; Nothing of love beside the face was seen; But every inch of her you now uncase, And clap a vizard-mask upon the face.

This "Venus" is the prototype of all other Venetian versions; it is in painting what the "Aphrodite" of Praxiteles was in sculpture, a perfect creation of a master mind.

It was no wonder that the sculptors claimed that every new Venus they turned out was Marcia's portrait.

DARIA. Is not Venus the air? CHRYSANTHUS.

"Venus can never be an evening star and a morning star at the same time of the year.

Venus had been an equal friend to both, And vict'ry to declare herself seems loth; Over the camp, with doubtful wings, she flies, Till Chloris shining in the fields she spies.

The Venus is a very beautiful woman, but the Apollo is a god.

The Venus of Page we cannot accept,not because it may be unbeautiful, for that might be but a shortcoming,not because of any technical failure, for, with the exception of weakness in the character of waves, nothing can be finer,not because it lacks elevated sentiment, for this Venus was not the celestial,but because it has nothing to do with the present, neither is it of the past, nor related in any wise to any imaginable future.

The forest is the world, and the bodies of the lovers are things natural and unashamed, and Venus is the tyrannous instinct that controls the blood in spring.

In the following sentence, nature is animated and made feminine by a metaphor, while a lifeless object bearing the name of Venus, is spoken of as neuter: "Like that conceit of old, which declared that the Venus of Gnidos was not the work of Praxiteles, since nature herself had concreted the boundary surface of its beauty.

The Venus of Page we cannot accept,not because it may be unbeautiful, for that might be but a shortcoming,not because of any technical failure, for, with the exception of weakness in the character of waves, nothing can be finer,not because it lacks elevated sentiment, for this Venus was not the celestial,but because it has nothing to do with the present, neither is it of the past, nor related in any wise to any imaginable future.

And Venus is a summer girl, dressed up in a stunning gown and a Paris hat.

The present has no ideal of which the Venus of the ancients is a manifestation.

"Would you care to paint me as the Goddess of Love?" He, still, did not look at her; but answered, while, with deliberate care, he selected a few brushes from the Chinese jar near the easel, "Venus is always a very popular subject, you know.

But Cleopatra was only a queen; Venus was a goddess.

Titian's second Venus is above, for which his daughter Lavinia acted as model (the Venus of the other version being possibly the Marchesa della Rovere), and under it is the only Luini in the Uffizi, unmistakably from the sweet hand and full of Leonardesque influence.

The "Venus and Adonis" is a splendid piece of composition, and very touching in its sentiment; even its illustrious author was proud to call it "the first heir of his invention."

My grandmother was very fond of it frizzled; and Venus being quite au fait in the manufacture of this dish, the old lady never allowed any one else to make it for her.

18 Metaphors for  venus