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An exquisite use of space showing the garden fresco from "The House of the Golden Bracelet", Pompeii framed by Venus Callipyge & Eros stringing his bow.

2018 Exhibition: “Ovidio: Loves, Myths & Other Stories” at Scuderie del Quirinale, Roma.
Mille modi veneris; simplex minimique laboris, Cum iacet in dextrum semisupina latus.

“There are a thousand ways of making love: simple & least effort, is just to lie there half-turned on your right side”

-Ovid, Ars Amatoria III

-Roman bronze mirror w/ erotic scene-1st c. BC
A wonderfully erotic Ovidian line:
Mille modi Veneris, "There are a thousand ways of making love."
Latin word Veneris relates to sexual love, it derives from Venus, Roman Goddess of Love. Later in the 17th century, the anatomical phrase 'mons veneris' was used to describe the female fat pad above the pubic area [mons pubis]. The word 'venereal' also derives from veneris. [1]
This late 1st century BC Roman bronze mirror engraved with an erotic scene is contemporary with Ovid's Ars Amatoria written in 2 AD. The mirror cover is at Musei Capitolini, Roma [2]
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