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Updated: May 7, 2025
One of these is called the Venus Anadyomene, or Venus rising from the sea. The emperor Augustus carried this picture to Rome, and placed so high a value on it that he lessened the tribute-money of the people of Kos a hundred talents on account of it. This sum was about equal to one hundred thousand dollars of our money.
There is a richly-ornamented and very characteristic head of Commodus, which really looks as if it might have come from the sculptor's hands yesterday. A colossal bust of Mæcenas, also the gift of Signor Castellani, a bust of Tiberius, a small statue of the child Hercules, a Venus Anadyomene, may be, and many others might be, mentioned.
Centuries later our perceptions, sharpened by the stations of pain and experience traversed, lend to this immortal canvas a more sympathetic, less literal interpretation. Music, too, in the Anadyomene of the Uffizi. Still stranger music.
O, wherefore art thou flown so soon, Thou first fair year Love's honeymoon! All, dream too exquisite for life! Home's goddess in the name of wife! Reared by each grace yet but to be Man's household Anadyomene! With mind from which the sunbeams fall, Rejoice while pervading all; Frank in the temper pleased to please Soft in the feeling waked with ease.
"I don't believe in fairies. I never see any." "Ha!" said his father. "Does Mum?" His father smiled his funny smile. "No; she only sees Pan." "What's Pan?" "The Goaty God who skips about in wild and beautiful places." "Was he in Glensofantrim?" "Mum said so." Little Jon took his heels up, and led on. "Did you see him?" "No; I only saw Venus Anadyomene."
It superseded an altar and lofty column of Numidian marble, at which the people had previously offered sacrifices to the memory of their idol, the first mortal in Rome raised to the rank of the gods; an honour justified, they imagined, not only by his great deeds, but also by his alleged descent from Venus Anadyomene.
"But if I go to sleep, Mum, I shan't hear you come up." "Well, when I do, I'll come in and give you a kiss, then if you're awake you'll know, and if you're not you'll still know you've had one." Little Jon sighed, "All right!" he said: "I suppose I must put up with that. Mum?" "Yes?" "What was her name that Daddy believes in? Venus Anna Diomedes?" "Oh! my angel! Anadyomene."
She was beautiful, endowed with the alluring, gentle, soft, luxurious, and at the same time modest beauty of the Venus Anadyomene, the goddess rising from the sea. "Come," said Frederick, "give me your hand. I will conduct you, and I promise you that this time the king will applaud." Barbarina did not reply. In the fire of her impatience, she pressed the king onward toward the door.
Of this power of domination, this feminine royalty, the Venus Anadyomene still retains a measure, but the Venus of Urbino and the splendid succession of Venuses and Danaës, goddesses, nymphs, and heroines belonging to the period of the fullest maturity, show woman in the phase in which, renouncing her power to enslave, she is herself reduced to slavery.
It is as though on the rising, falling, rising, sinking tides of the poem, on the waves of the glamorous feminine voices, on the aphrodisiac swell of the sea, the white Anadyomene herself, with her galaxy of tritons and naiads, approached earth's shores once more. If any musical task is to be considered as having been accomplished, it is that of Debussy.
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