In the circulatory system, a vein is a blood vessel that carries blood toward the heart. The majority of veins in the body carry low-oxygen blood from the tissues back to the heart; the exceptions being the pulmonary and umbilical veins which both carry oxygenated blood.
"Venus" is a song by the Dutch band Shocking Blue, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on February 7, 1970. RIAA certification came on January 28, 1970 for selling over one million copies in the USA, garnering a gold record award.
The song's music and lyrics are written by Robbie van Leeuwen. Van Leeuwen used "The Banjo Man" on the Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod, a 1963 album by The Big 3 with Mama Cass Elliot on vocals as main inspiration.
Venus and Mars is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, dating from c. 1483.
The painting deals with an amorous victory. A grove of myrtle trees, the tree of Venus, forms the backdrop to the two gods who are lying opposite each other on a meadow. Venus is clothed and is attentively keeping watch over Mars as he sleeps. The god of war has taken off his armor and is lying naked on his red cloak; all he is wearing is a white loin cloth.
The goddess of love, who is clothed in a costly white and gold gown, is watching over the sleeping naked Mars, while little satyrs are playing mischievously with the weapons and armor of the god of war. Botticelli's theme is that the power of love can defeat the warrior's strength. The boisterous little fauns that form part of the retinue of Bacchus, the god of wine, are depicted by Botticelli, in accordance with ancient tradition, with little goats' legs, horns and tails. The Triton's shell with which one of the fauns is blowing into Mars' ear was used in classical times as a hunting horn.
The overall layout of the composition is probably inspired by an ancient sarcophagus now in the Vatican Museum. Art from classical antiquity was a major source of inspiration for Renaissance painters. As paintings did not survive, they used relief sculptures and Ecphrasis, detailed textual descriptions of lost paintings made by classical authors. Relief sculptures tended towards dense figurative compositions in which the characters were all placed in the foreground picture plane, as with the composition of Venus and Mars.
The mischievous little satyrs playing practical jokes nearby were probably suggested by an ecphrasis written by the Greek poet Lucian describing the famous classical painting Wedding of Alexander the Great to the Persian princess Roxane. In the passage, Lucian describes how "two are carrying his spear, as porters do a heavy beam ... another has got into the breast plate, which lies hollow part upwards; he is in ambush". Botticelli replaced the amoretti which Lucian describes playing with Alexander's weapons with little satyrs. His painting is one of the earliest examples in Renaissance painting to depict these boisterous and lusty hybrids in this form. They are playing with the war god's helmet, lance and cuirass. One of them is cheekily blowing into his ear through a sea shell. But he has as little chance of disturbing the sleeping god as the wasps nest to the right of his head. The wasps may be a reference to the clients who commissioned the painting. They are part of the coat of arms of the Vespucci family, whose name derives from vespa, Italian for wasp. The dimensions of the painting suggest that it formed part of a cassone, a chest with a painted panel at the back, found in the main bedroom of married couples.
Given that its theme is love, this painting was possibly also commissioned on the occasion of a wedding. In this way it should exemplify the theories of the philosopher Marsilio Ficino, according to whom the exhortations to virtues are more welcomed if expressed through pleasant images. Ficino was the tutor of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de'Medici, cousin of the more famous Lorenzo de' Medici: a major patron of Botticelli, and part of a humanist circle including the Vespucci family. As such, he may well have contributed to the composition and the choice of source material in Botticelli's mythological paintings, including this one. In particular, Ficino had an astrological perspective, within which the goddess Venus was associated with the influence of the planet Venus on an individual's character, standing for the qualities of love and humanitas in Renaissnce humanism. I his Commentary on the Symposium: De Amore of Plato, Ficino describes how "Mars stands foremost in strength for he makes men stronger. Yet Venus masters him ... in conjunction with him, in opposition to him ... often restrains his malignance ... Wherefore she seems to tame and placate Mars. But Mars never masters Venus." If this passage echoes views of Ficino's that influenced the composition of Botticelli's Venus and Mars, it would explain why the character of Venus is depicted as alert and watchfull, whilst that of Mars is in deep slumber, a feature not found in the sarcophagus relief sculpture that may have served as a model for the composition.
An alternative source for the image is the Stanze of Poliziano. Stanze 122 describes how the hero found Venus "seated on the edge of her couch, just then released from the embrace of Mars, who lay on his back in her lap, still feeding his eyes on her face". Poliziano was in one of the humanist scholars in the court of Lorenzo de' Medici, and his stanze are a famous poem alluding to the prowess of Lorenzo's younger brother Giuliano di Piero de' Medici in the jousting tournament Lorenzo had organized to celebrate a treatise with Venice. However, the description, with Mars in Venus' lap, gazing up at her, is a poor fit to the painting.
Venus Terzo (born October 17, 1967, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian actress best noted for her role as Detective Angela Kosmo in Da Vinci's Inquest and its spinoff, Da Vinci's City Hall. She was nominated in 2002 for the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role in that same role. Terzo speaks English, French, Italian, and some Greek.
She also has voiced several roles in animated shows, such as Jean Grey in X-Men: Evolution, and anime. She is currently the voice of Rainbow Dash and Sparkleworks in the new My Little Pony DVDs, and voices Rainbow Dash in My Little Pony Live. She currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
"Venus" is Tackey and Tsubasa's sixth single under the avex trax label.
"Venus" is the name of a song written by Ed Marshall. The most successful recording of it was done by Frankie Avalon and released in 1959. It became Avalon's first number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The song's lyrics detail a man's plea to Venus, the goddess of love, to send him a girl for him to love and who will love him as well.
In 1976, Frankie Avalon released a new disco version of "Venus." This helped to revive the singer's career, as his success had been waning prior to its release. This rerecording of "Venus" was Avalon's last Hot 100 hit. It peaked at number forty-six.
"Venus" was covered in 2006 by Barry Manilow on his album The Greatest Songs of the Fifties.
Venus DeMilo Thomas is an African American actress best known for her work as a part of Nickelodeon's Salute Your Shorts. Later in her career, she guest starred as Laura's friend K.C. on Family Matters. She also played Rashelle on Sister Sister starring the Mowry sisters.
