Venus

Aphrodite, or Venus, the goddess of love, passion and desire, one of the most important classic deities. She has two versions as stated in Hesioide's "Theogony", the "Urania" one (personificating the pure and respectull love) and the "Pandemos" one (being the icon for mundane love and sex). She was "awarded" with the golden apple Eris threw in the marriage of Thetis & Peleo and that make Troja's War to get started.

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Model: ~mjranum-stock, other stuff by myself or from sxc.hu.

I tried to represent in this a sort of mixture of the classic born of Venus we all know with the apple thing (:

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<sub>Other titles in this series
Eris
Hera
Artemis + Apollo
The Hades

Edit Oct.2010: Changed post-processing, lighting and colours. You can see the older original version in the making of thingie linked above.

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