Aphrodite2.0007_Botero

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Aphrodite2.0007_Botero

Botero at Wikipedia Commons
Hesiod Theogony 188-206
Sappho "Ode to Aphrodite", trns. A. Carson
Lucretius De rerum natura 1.1-30
Horace Odes 4.15
Ovid Met. 10.534

Fernando Botero, “Broadgate Venus,” 1990, London, Exchange Square (behind Liverpool Street Station).

P. Warde-Jackson, Public Sculpture of the City of London (Liverpool University Press 2003), 57. “Botero went on to produce further versions of this design for other locations, and has said that painting can benefit from an injection of bad taste, and that the smell of fried food does not come amiss in the preciosity of the art world. This is definitely the flavor that Botero has brought to Broadgate." [GoogleBooks] —

A man sits on the base of a large, dark bronze sculpture of a reclining figure, talking on a phone

The guy on the mobile phone is included for scale. The inset photo upper-right shows the goddess's right hand with the Apple of Discord. The 5-ton bronze plays on mass for its effect.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.