| Each of the primitive-looking Venuses gazed at a raw stone elevated on a nearby pedestal of equal height. |
| With incredible rapidity Renoir began painting firm-breasted Venuses on hundreds of vases and plates. |
| He was better pleased with the rounded amplitudes of the Danae and the Venuses painted for him by Titian, than by El Greco's wizened male nudes the colour of fog. |
| They are not Apollos, and Venuses, nor adonises, that knock at painters' doors. |
