- Botticelli
This link takes you to a brief bio of Botticelli, whose Birth of Venus you saw in this chapter.
- Piero di Cosimo
This link will take you to a page that lists many of his paintings that are available online.
- Paolo Caliari
Caliari's Venus and Mars United in Love.
- Diego Velázquez
This link takes you to a page that lists many of his paintings that are available online.
- Bryn Mawr Classical Review
The contemporary interest in women's studies has made the Olympian goddesses increasingly the subject of specialized research. These links below will take you to reviews of many of the most recent of such inquiries in the online journal Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
- The Aphrodite of Knidos and her Successors: A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art.
Christine Mitchell Havelock, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
- Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and the Evidence
Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press (co-published with British Museum Press, U.K.), 1999.
- Goddess and Polis. The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens
Jenifer Neils. Hanover: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1992. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
- The Living Goddesses
Marija Gimbutas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
