What Bouguereau can teach us about Perfect Beauty
The Depiction of Venus in Art
Every artist reaches a point in his craft when he believes he can depict the perfect female form. This can be through song, through sculpture or through paint, but attempt it he must, by some compulsion from Aphrodite, her sweet breath on his brain like an intoxicating drug.
Aphrodite, or Venus in the Roman form, is the Goddess of love and the manifesta…