Venus & Cupid

Artist : David Peniston
Title : "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
-Voltaire
Date : 2009
Medium : a collage by David Peniston, Source; Francois Boucher, "Venus as Protectress of The Arts of Music and Drawing", c. 1754, oil on canvas,
Size : 10 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches

Images for Mars

Symbols for Mars

Images of Mars in Art

Botticelli
Venus and Mars is a c. 1483 painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli. It shows the Roman gods Venus and Mars in an allegory of Beauty and Valour. Wikipedia

Poem for Mars

What can be said about the God of War?
He is the hardest to write a poem for
His only followers are panic and dread
If he got inside your head -
You were dead
His sphere aptly colored red
He left a wake of rotting corpses
Ruled his servants with fear and terror
His punishment for disobedience swift
Make no mistake
Mons Olypics (The largest mountain in our Solar System) is glorified on your surface, also, the deepest valley, larger (& longer) than the Grand Canyon also honored there
Your surface bears the scars of battle like the back of Achilles scales and rupes like canals....

News:

The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight into early Sunday morning and if the sky above you is clear you are sure to enjoy a spectacular astronomical show. While the meteors are the main billing tonight, there are a few other players on the stellar stage. Look to the east early tomorrow morning before dawn as Jupiter, then the moon and finally Venus will rise, creating a nice diagonal line. Of course with any of these events in the sky the weather is the most important variable. It won't matter how great the meteors are if it's overcast. Much of Texas, the Ohio Valley, Tennessee, the northern parts of Alabama, Mississippi and the Rockies look to have favorable sky conditions. parts of Florida and a good deal of the West Coast will also be mainly clear.

This Sunday, August 5, The U.S. Is LANDING ON MARS!!

Images of Venus in Art

Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) The Birth of Venus, Oil on canvas,1863, 51 1/8 x 88 1/2 inches (130 x 225 cm) Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France