Venuses by Lucas Cranach the Elder
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Venus is the name of several paintigs by Lucas Cranach the Elder. The most famous one, dated (1532) [1] is housed at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main.
Another version is Venus Standing in a Landscape (1529)
Another subtheme of Cranach's Venuses is Venus and the Honey Thief, Weimar, 1530; Berlin, 1534, and one at the KMSKB in Brussels
Censorship
From March 8 until June 8, 2008, the London Royal Academy of Arts held a retrospective of Cranach’s work. The advertising poster for the Cranach expo (which displayed the 1532 Städelsches Kunstinstitut Venus painting) was first considered offensive to the officials of the London Underground, who banned it and stated that “Millions of people travel on the London Underground each day and they have no choice but to view whatever adverts are posted there. We have to take account of the full range of travellers and endeavour not to cause offence in the advertising we display.” The ban was later reversed.
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