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
Venus in the Cloister as a result was a popular theme in literature during the reforms of Protestantism and Counter-Reformation. Denis Diderot's "La Religieuse" is a later example of this theme. The author of "Venus in the Cloister" satirizes the constraints of convent life which expected nuns to live in a "cloister" of sexual repression and suffering and the use by the state of religious ideology as a means of control. Sex becomes the only means of protest against such rigorous controls of the state. A careful parallel is drawn between the act of sexual pleasure and protesting against repressive state control. "At the