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Albert Joseph Moore painted A Venus in 1869, a full-length nude Modeled after the Venus de Milo. The goddess of love stands against a backdrop of white blossoms, her stance demure and contemplative with one arm raised in a graceful arc.
The painting measures 76.2 x 160 cm and marked Moore's move away from Old Testament scenes toward classical subjects. Like other artists of the Aesthetic Movement, he valued beautifully arranged forms over storytelling. A blue and white ceramic pot at the left reappears in later works.
A Venus hangs at the York Art Gallery in York, UK.
Other masterpieces from the Academic Art movement

Rosa Bonheur, 1853
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Alexandre Cabanel, 1863
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1909
Tate Britain, London

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1888
Private Collection, Unknown

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1873
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1879
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Frederic Leighton, 1895
Tate Britain, London

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1866
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
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