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Jeanette´s Venus / La Venus de Jeanette. 2010. 
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The history has many Venus: The Paleolithic’s Venus or Willendorf’s Venus; Milo’s Venus; The birth of Venus; Urbino’s Venus. 
The Venus always has associated with the ideal of beauty. In the Roman mythology, she is the goddess of the Gardens and Fields, before identified as Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty. In the imperial time, she was worshipped under different aspects: as Venus Genetrix, identified with the hero's mother Aeneas, the founder of the Roman people; as Venus Félix, the carrier of good fortune; as Venus Victrix, the carrier of victory; and as Venus Verticordia, the protector of the feminine chastity. Venus was the woman of Vulcano, god of the forge of the metals, but often she was unfaithful to him. Mars was among their many lovers and so the beautiful shepherd Adonis. She was also Cupid’s mother, god of the love.
Jeanette’s Venus (la Venus de Jeanette) contains all these Venus and at the same time it is not any of them. She is not the ideal of beauty that inspires to creation. She is not carrier of Victory; she is not the hero's mother neither the one that carries the good fortune. She is not protector of the chastity, she is not unfaithful to anybody, she is unfaithful to herself. She is her own Goddess. 
Jeanette’s Venus (La Venus de Jeanette) is not in the Greek Island of Milo. Jeanette’s Venus inhabits another Island and will lives forever in there. She won’t have the happiness of being found.

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