12 de Abril

"Love of beauty is Taste.

The creation of beauty is Art"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Rokeby Venus, 1648-51

Diego Rodriguez de Velázquez

National Gallery, London

3 de Março

"Venus favors the bold"

Ovid

The Birth of Venus, c. 1490

Sandro Botticelli

Uffizi Gallery, Florence

1 de Março

"We look forward to the time when

the power of love will replace

the love of power. Then will our world

know the blessings of peace"

William Ewart Gladstone

Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Graces, 1822-24

Jacques-Louis David

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels