Torso of Venus and a Landscape and ink. Van Gogh produced other earlier paintings of Torso of Venus during his stay in Paris, such as the "Torso of Venus" in 1886, which was exhibited at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It also featured a realism aspect, and was drawn with similar media. It is possible that "Torso of Venus and a Landscape" was a rough draft. 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
Temple of Venus and Roma of a god—Venus, the goddess of love, and Roma, the goddess of Rome, both figures seated on a throne. The cellae were arranged symmetrically back-to-back. Roma's cella faced west, looking out over the Forum Romanum, and Venus' cella faced east, looking out over the Colosseum. A row of four columns ("tetrastyle") lined the entrance to each cella, and the temple was bordered by colonnaded entrances ending in staircases that led down to the Colosseum. The west and east sides of the temple (the short sides) had ten white columns ("decastyle"), and the south and north (the long sides) featured eighteen