⁂ The master scene between Ventidius and Antony in this tragedy is copied from _The Maid’s Tragedy_ (by Beaumont and Fletcher), Ventidius being the “Melantius” of Beaumont and Fletcher’s drama.--Dryden, _All for Love, or the World Well Lost_ (1678). =Ventriloquist.= The best that ever lived was Brabant, the engastrimisth of François I. of France. =Venus= (_Paintings of_). VENUS ANADYOM´ENÊ, or Venus rising from the sea and wringing her golden tresses, by Apellês. Apellês also put his name to a “Sleeping Venus.” Tradition says that Campaspê (afterwards his wife) was the model of his Venus. THE RHODIAN VENUS, referred to by Campbell, in his _Pleasures of Hope_, ii., is the Venus spoken of by Pliny, xxxv. 10, from which Shakespeare has drawn his picture of Cleopatra in her barge (_Antony and Cleopatra_, act ii. sc. 2). The Rhodian was Protog´enês. When first the Rhodian’s mimic art arrayed The queen of Beauty in her Cyprian shade, The happy master mingled in his piece Each look that charmed him in the fair of Greece ... Love on the picture smiled. Expression poured Her mingling spirit there, and Greece adored. _Pleasures of Hope_, ii. (1799). _Venus_ (_Statues of_). THE CNIDIAN VENUS, a nude statue, bought by the CNIDIANS. By Praxitĕlês. THE COAN VENUS, a draped statue, bought by the Coans. By Praxitelês. THE VENUS DE’ MEDICI, a statue dug up in several pieces at Hadrian’s villa, near Tiv´oli (seventeenth century), and placed for a time at the Medici palace at Rome, whence its name. It was the work of Cleom´enês, the Athenian. All one arm and part of the other were restored by Bandinelli. In 1680 this statue was removed to the Uffizi gallery at Florence. It was removed to Paris by Napoleon, but was afterwards restored. THE VENUS OF ARLES, with a mirror in the right hand and an apple in the left. This statue is ancient, but the mirror and apple are by Girardin. THE VENUS OF MILO. The “Venus Victorious” is called the “Venus of Milo,” because it was brought from the island of Milo, in the Ægēan Sea, by Admiral Dumont d’Urville, in 1820. It is one of the _chefs d’œuvre_ of antiquity, and is now in the Louvre of Paris. THE PAULINE VENUS, by Canōva. Modelled from Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese. I went by chance into the room of the Pauline Venus; my mouth will taste bitter all day. How venial! how gaudy and vile she is with her gilded upholstery! It is the most hateful thing that ever wasted marble.--Ouida, _Ariadnê_, i. 1. THE VENUS PANDĒMOS, the sensual and vulgar Venus (Greek, _pan-dêmos_, for the vulgar or populace generally); as opposed to the “Uranian Venus,” the beau-ideal of beauty and loveliness.