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The Venus of the Low Countries
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The topical catalogue 'The Venus of the Low Countries' Vol. 3.1 in the series 'The Iconography of Venus from the Middle Ages... More > to Modern Times' lists 2636 artworks (sculptures, reliefs, paintings, frescos, drawings, prints and illustrations) of 728 identified artists of the Low Countries. The date of creation, artist's name, title(s), type, medium/support and dimension of the artwork, the owner, inventory number and information sources are given. The catalogue is ordered chronologically under the 18 main topics and many more subtopics of the rich iconography of Venus. An index of artists, a directory of owners and an extensive bibliography are included. 201 pp. See http://sites.google.com/site/venusiconography/ < Less
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The Iconography of Venus - Vol. 1.1 The Italian Venus
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A comprehensive catalogue of the iconography of Venus by Italian artists from the Middle Ages to Modern Times. Sculptures,... More > reliefs, paintings, frescoes, drawings, prints and illustrations are described by date of creation, artist's name, title(s), type, medium/support and dimension of the artwork, the owner, inventory number and information sources. 649 Italian artists are identified and the catalogue lists 1840 entries, ordered by 18 topics and many more subtopics. An index of artists, a directory of owners and an extensive bibliography are included. 155 pp. The catalogue is a unique support tool for museum curators, gallery owners, auctioneers and buyers, art historians, archaeologists, sociologists and all those interested in the perpetual iconography of Aphrodite/Venus in our society. READ THE PREVIEW OF 11 PAGES.
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The Iconography of Venus - Vol. 2.1 The French Venus
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The topical catalogue 'The French Venus'in the series 'The Iconography of Venus from the Middle Ages to Modern Times' lists... More > 2997 artworks (sculptures, reliefs, paintings, frescos, drawings, prints and illustrations) of 977 identified French artists. The date of creation, artist's name, title(s), type, medium/support and dimension of the artwork, the owner, inventory number and information sources are given. The catalogue is ordered chronologically under the 18 main topics and many more subtopics of the rich iconography of Venus. An index of artists, a directory of owners and an extensive bibliography are included. 196 p.
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Descriptive Statistics of the Venus Iconography
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Two 'convenient' samples of 1775 Italian and 2842 French artworks by identified artists are the basis for:
1° tabular and... More > graphical presentations of frequencies of the artworks using a nominal scale of 18 categories (topics) and an arbitrary time interval scale of 50 years;
2° the analysis of the topic mode and the popularity, introducing a popularity ratio of topics for the whole period and for separate periods,
yielding some striking results of popularity differences in separate periods of both samples;
3° the calculation of four nonparametric measures of diversity or dispersion: these measures confirm the visual understanding of the diagrams and
one can safely conclude that the diversity of topics is the same among the Italian and French artworks, in spite of the large time shift of frequencies.
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Time distribution, popularity, diversity and productivity of the iconography of Venus in the Low Countries, France and Italy
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The paper analyses quantitatively three large data sets of artworks (7473 in total) and their artists (2374 in total) of the... More > Low Countries, of France and of Italy from the 16th century to the present time. The time series analysis shows a clear shift of the peak production from the 16th century in Italy to the 17th century in the Low Countries and the 18th century in France. Topics ‘Venus and Cupid’ and ‘Venus and Adonis’ are among the most popular ones in Italy and France during different periods, but ‘Venus and Adonis’ is definitely the most popular topic in the Low Countries from 1600 to 1799. A ranking of the ten most productive artists in each region reveals that the artists of the Low Countries were more productive than their colleagues in France, and those in France more than the artists in Italy. The productivity of artists follows exactly the formula of Lotka, known as the law of scientific productivity: 60% of all artists in the samples create only one Venus-artwork. < Less
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Time distribution, popularity, diversity and productivity of the iconography of Venus in the Low Countries, France and Italy
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The paper analyses quantitatively three large data sets of artworks (7473 in total) and their artists (2374 in total) of the... More > Low Countries, of France and of Italy from the 16th century to the present time. The time series analysis shows a clear shift of the peak production from the 16th century in Italy to the 17th century in the Low Countries and the 18th century in France. Topics ‘Venus and Cupid’ and ‘Venus and Adonis’ are among the most popular ones in Italy and France during different periods, but ‘Venus and Adonis’ is definitely the most popular topic in the Low Countries from 1600 to 1799. A ranking of the ten most productive artists in each region reveals that the artists of the Low Countries were more productive than their colleagues in France, and those in France more than the artists in Italy. The productivity of artists follows exactly the formula of Lotka, known as the law of scientific productivity: 60% of all artists in the samples create only one Venus-artwork. < Less
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The Venus of the Low Countries
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The topical catalogue 'The Venus of the Low Countries' Vol. 3.1 in the series 'The Iconography of Venus from the Middle Ages... More > to Modern Times' lists 2636 artworks (sculptures, reliefs, paintings, frescos, drawings, prints and illustrations) of 728 identified artists of the Low Countries. The date of creation, artist's name, title(s), type, medium/support and dimension of the artwork, the owner, inventory number and information sources are given. The catalogue is ordered chronologically under the 18 main topics and many more subtopics of the rich iconography of Venus. An index of artists, a directory of owners and an extensive bibliography are included. 201 pp. See http://sites.google.com/site/venusiconography/ < Less
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The Iconography of Venus - Vol. 2.1 The French Venus
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The topical catalogue 'The French Venus'in the series 'The Iconography of Venus from the Middle Ages to Modern Times' lists... More > 2997 artworks (sculptures, reliefs, paintings, frescos, drawings, prints and illustrations) of 977 identified French artists. The date of creation, artist's name, title(s), type, medium/support and dimension of the artwork, the owner, inventory number and information sources are given. The catalogue is ordered chronologically under the 18 main topics and many more subtopics of the rich iconography of Venus. An index of artists, a directory of owners and an extensive bibliography are included. 196 p.
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The Iconography of Venus - Vol. 1.1 The Italian Venus
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A comprehensive catalogue of the iconography of Venus by Italian artists from the Middle Ages to Modern Times. Sculptures,... More > reliefs, paintings, frescoes, drawings, prints and illustrations are described by date of creation, artist's name, title(s), type, medium/support and dimension of the artwork, the owner, inventory number and information sources. 649 Italian artists are identified and the catalogue lists 1840 entries, ordered by 18 topics and many more subtopics. An index of artists, a directory of owners and an extensive bibliography are included. 155 pp. The catalogue is a unique support tool for museum curators, gallery owners, auctioneers and buyers, art historians, archaeologists, sociologists and all those interested in the perpetual iconography of Aphrodite/Venus in our society. READ THE PREVIEW OF 11 PAGES.
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The Italian Venus
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The Iconography of Venus Vol.1.1 'The Italian Venus' is a comprehensive catalogue, which describes - from the Middle Ages to... More > Modern Times - sculptures, reliefs, paintings, frescos, drawings, prints and illustrations by date of creation, artist's name, title(s), type, medium/support and dimension of the artwork, the owner, inventory number and information sources; 649 Italian artists are identified and the topical catalogue lists 1840 entries, ordered by 18 topics and many more subtopics. An index of artists, a directory of owners and an extensive bibliography are included. 156 pp.
The catalogue is a unique support tool for museum curators, gallery owners, auctioneers and buyers, art historians, archaeologists, sociologists and all those interested in the perpetual iconography of Aphrodite/Venus in our society.See http://sites.google.com/site/venusiconography/ < Less
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About K. Bender

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K. Bender is a retired academic who develops a database of the iconography of Aphrodite/Venus (excluding pre-historic and science-fiction-related iconography). The database counts presently more than 24 000 records of artworks, including all types of art (visual arts, literature, theatre, dance, music, film or video, etc. ) as well as cartoons, posters, stamps, trivia, websites and all sorts of commercial stuff sold under the name Aphrodite or Venus.

The software used is "Artworks-The Art Organizer", a friendly, inexpensive and effective Australian programme with regular updates from www.ArtWorksPro.com.

Anyone interested in the subject of the iconography of Aphrodite/Venus is welcome to contact me by e-mail
See my Blog 'Iconography in Art History'
for regular posts http://kbender.blogspot.com/
See my Website: 'Venus Iconography'
for details about art data analysis and my quantitative approach to art history
http://sites.google.com/site/venusiconography/

 

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