Emil Melmoth

Emil Melmoth, sculpting the Fragile Threshold Between Flesh, Faith, and Mortality. His hyperrealistic figurative sculptures initially resem...

February 16, 2018

Luis Desangles - The Birth of Venus, 1896

Luis Desangles - The Birth of Venus, oil on canvas, 1896

The Birth of Venus (El Nacimiento de Venus)
Oil on canvas, completed in 1896

A reproduction by Luis Desangles (1861-1940, Santo Domingo), of the French artist Alexandre Cabanel's painting of the same name.

Cabanel painted two versions of The Birth of Venus, the first in 1863, and a smaller version commissioned in 1875.