History Art / ThePlanetVenus

* StandardizedSpaceViews: In what has to be the UrExample, this {{painting|s}} has a half-crescent moon framing the figure of the Grecorroman goddess Venus. It counts because the moon is shown as a sphere, its waxing appearance being accomplished with the lighting. As if it was painted mid-rotation. It's also a case of UnbuiltTrope, to boot, because it's meant to highlight the connection between mythology and astronomy, not show the state of humanity's cosmological exploration.

* StandardizedSpaceViews: In what has to be the UrExample (and a case of UnbuiltTrope, to boot), this {{painting|s}} has a half-crescent moon framing the figure of the Grecorroman goddess Venus. It counts because the moon is shown as a sphere, its waxing appearance being accomplished with the lighting. As if it was painted mid-rotation.

* StandardizedSpaceViews: In what has to be the UrExample, this {{painting|s}} has a half-crescent moon framing the figure of the Grecorroman goddess Venus. It counts because the moon is shown as a sphere, its waxing appearance being accomplished with the lighting. As if it was painted mid-rotation.

* StandardizedSpaceViews: In what has to be the UrExample (and a case of UnbuiltTrope, to boot), this {{painting|s}} has a half-crescent moon framing the figure of the Grecorroman goddess Venus. It counts because the moon is shown as a sphere, its waxing appearance being accomplished with the lighting.

* {{Fanservice}}: Being the goddess of beauty and sexuality, Venus is completely nude without an ounce of physical modesty and the viewer can see ''everything''. In fact, she points right at one of her breasts, a gesture drawing attention to her feminine form and implying her sexual fertility

* PowerFloats: The Goddess and putti are all balanced precariously on nothing but a sheet flapping in the air.

''The Planet Venus'' is an oil {{painting|s}} by the 19th century Spanish painter Luis Ricardo Falero.

The painting is a depiction of the Roman Goddess of Love Venus, shown floating in the heavens in-front of a waxing crescent moon and accompanied by four [[{{Putto}} putti]].

* GeniusBonus: Due to its closeness to Earth, the planet Venus undergoes phases as it moves around its orbit the same way the moon does. Falero shows Venus in a "thin crescent" as it comes around to the near side between the Earth and the Sun.

* {{Fanservice}}: Being the goddess of beauty and sexuality, Venus is completely nude without an ounce of physical modesty and the viewer can see ''everything''. In-fact, she points right at one of her breasts, a gesture drawing attention to her feminine form and implying her sexual fertility
* LoveGoddess: As the name implies, the titular Venus is the woman front and center in the image.

** Venus is the only planet named for a female and one of the five planets visible to the naked eye (Mercury, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter are the other four). After the moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky. As it moves around its orbit, Venus displays phases like those of the Moon: Falero shows Venus in a "thin crescent" as it comes around to the near side between the Earth and the Sun.
** The design of the drapery billowing in the wind was designed to look similar to clouds.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Venus is the only planet named for a female and one of the five planets visible to the naked eye (Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter are the other four). After the moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky. As it moves around its orbit, Venus displays phases like those of the Moon: Falero shows Venus in a "thin crescent" as it comes around to the near side between the Earth and the Sun.

''The Planet Venus'' is an oil painting by the 19th century Spanish painter Luis Ricardo Falero.

''The Planet Venus'' is an oil painting by Spanish painter Luis Ricardo Falero.

The painting is a depiction of the Roman Goddess of Love Venus, shown floating in the heavesn in-front of a waxing crescent moon and accompanied by four [[{{Putto}} putti]].