statue of Venus
Fresco depicting Venus and Mars
Relief depicting Venus
Rubens representation of the Veneralia
On 1 April - Romans celebrated #Veneralia, honouring Venus Verticordia (“changer of hearts”) & Fortuna Virilis.
Women washed Venus’s statue & offered prayers for love & marriage.
April (Aprilis) was sacred to Venus.
🪷 On the #Veneralia, #AntoniusSubia offers a prayer to #Venus:
Mother Venus, Mother of the Romans
In whose border-fields #Antinous dwells forever, I will spread his power to the world:
Love, Pleasure, Beauty, Feeling.
We are invincible.
Ave Venus: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/04/on-v... 🪷
🪷 #April1st is the Roman #Veneralia feast of #Venus/#Urania who blesses LGBTQIA+ love with her sons, the #Erotes, the spirits of love, lust, passion and desire. #Hadrian's temple of Venus and Roma stresses love as Rome's mother. We are all her Erotes: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-... 🪷
🪷 1 April we celebrate the #Veneralia feast of #Venus #Aphrodite, and 1 April is also a feast of Egyptian counterpart #Hathor. Archaeologists have found a temple cornice stone at #Antinoopolis that mentions Hathor, #Antinous, #Hadrian, Empress Sabina and intersex deity #Hapi. 🪷
Today, Mar 31, our Fun Friends in #AncientRome, and #Pangans Today, would have been / are getting down with the #Veneralia (Roman festival of #Venus).
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Painting:
(Clean Pic: www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bouguereau/venus.jpg )
Representations of Venus in Roman painting and sculptures
Representations of Venus in Roman painting and sculptures
Representations of Venus in Roman painting and sculptures
On 1st April #Romans celebrated #Veneralia in honour of #Venus Verticordia & #Fortuna Virilis. Women & men asked the goddesses for help in affairs of the heart, sex, betrothal & marriage.
April was sacred to Venus.
🪷 #April1st is the Roman #Veneralia feast of #Venus/#Urania who blesses LGBTQIA+ love with her sons, the #Erotes, the spirits of love, lust, passion and desire. #Hadrian's temple of Venus and Roma stresses love as Rome's mother. We are all her Erotes: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... 🪷
🪷 #April1st is the Roman #Veneralia feast of #Venus/#Urania who blesses LGBTQIA+ love with her sons, the #Erotes, the spirits of love, lust, passion and desire. #Hadrian's temple of Venus and Roma stresses love as Rome's mother. We are all her Erotes: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... 🪷
🪷 April 1st we celebrate the #Veneralia feast of #Venus #Aphrodite, and April 1st is also a feast of Egyptian counterpart #Hathor. Archaeologists have found a temple cornice stone at #Antinoopolis that mentions Hathor, #Antinous, #Hadrian, Empress Sabina and intersex deity #Hapi. 🪷
🪷 #April1st is the Roman #Veneralia feast of #Venus/#Urania who blesses LGBTQIA+ love with her sons, the #Erotes, the spirits of love, lust, passion and desire. #Hadrian's temple of Venus and Roma stresses love as Rome's mother. We are all her Erotes: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... 🪷
🪷 On the #Veneralia, #AntoniusSubia offers a prayer to #Venus:
Mother Venus, Mother of the Romans
In whose border-fields #Antinous dwells forever, I will spread his power to the world:
Love, Pleasure, Beauty, Feeling.
We are invincible.
Ave Venus: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/on-v... 🪷
