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De figuris Veneris
- Author
- Hancarville, Pierre d', $d 1719-1805.
- Title
- De figuris Veneris.
- Format
- Image
- Description
- 16 lithographs : color.
- Notes
- The illustrations are probably copies of Hancarville's. The style is much closer to late 19th-20th c. The library does not own the book that these illustrations were taken from, but it does have a 1928 reprint of an 1899 edition. The archives set of illustrations have been used as models for the 1928 edition. The iconography is identical, but style is different. See Forberg, Manual of Classical Erotology, 184.53 F69m.
- Summary
- Series of 16 color lithographs that illustrate Forberg's De figuris Veneris. Many forms of sexual behavior are depicted, including heterosexual and homosexual coitus, oral sex, flagellation, group sex, and orgies. The scenes are set in the classical Mediterranean world.
- Subject headings
- Plato. Alcibiades.
- Kinsey subjects
- Art--France--18th century. Lithographs. Coitus. Voyeurism. Homosexuality--Female. Homosexuality--Male. Flagellation. Masturbation. Fellatio. Orgies. Cunnilingus. Homosexual cunnilingus. Dildos. Zoophilia in art. Mythological motif.