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Originally posted by Yossarian
I mean, they're different works of art ..
just cause they depict the same goddess doesn't mean they're interchangeable...
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They are different pieces, but referring to either one of them makes your point as they depict the same godess..... Dozens of pieces have all depicted Venus in the same way and Venus de Milo and Botticelli's Birth of Venus still depict the same Venus, who has always been believed to have been born in the sea and has always had long luscious hair... The Venus de Milo was not called that originally, it was renamed that because it means "The Venus they found on Milos"...
If she says she was inspired by the Venus de Milo it is true, because Venus de Milo = Venus from Botticelli's work = Venus Pudica = Venus d' Medici = Capitoline Venus, i.e. they are all exactly the same, I mean, she didn't imitate the painting either, she just channelled the typical image that is created of Venus throughout history and that has been depicted in all these statues and paintings of this godess...
I ain't letting you tell me anything about art or art history, I know mine