Torso of Venus and a Landscape Torso of Venus and a Landscape Torso of Venus and a Landscape is a sketch by Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. It now resides in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. This drawing was created while van Gogh was staying with his brother in Paris (in 1886-1888), a period during which they did not write any letters to each other. As a result, little is known about the artist during this period except for his still-life paintings and "Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin". In 1887, he sketched this drawing onto a piece of paper with black chalk
Venus (mythology) of the most widely referenced deities of Greco-Roman mythology as the embodiment of love and sexuality. Venus embodies sex, love, beauty, enticement, seduction, and persuasive female charm among the community of immortal gods; in Latin orthography, her name is indistinguishable from the Latin noun "venus" ("sexual love" and "sexual desire"), from which it derives. It has connections to "venerari" ("to honour, to try to please") and "venia" ("grace, favour") through a possible common root in an Indo-European "*wenes-" or "*u̯enis" ("friend"). Their common Proto-Indo-European root is assumed as "*wen-" or "*u̯en-" "to strive for, wish for, desire, love"). Venus has