Mars and Venus Statue
aka
Ares and Aphrodite

Masculine and feminine aspects evolve together in the enlightened warrior God and the emotionally mature Venus Goddess of Love in this beautifully detailed, large and lovely figurine.
15 inches tall to top of spear
(just over 12 inches to top of helment)

Cold cast bronze statue
Regular Price:  $75.00
Our Price:          $59.00
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MARS AND VENUS STORY

"In Venus and Her Lover, Mars is no longer leading others onto the battlefield but now allows his warrior nature to fight the greatest battle of all: the struggle for the triumph of the true self. He willingly faces his ego and re-integrates his masculine and feminine aspects through determination and unconditional love.

Venus is no longer so self-absorbed that her jealousy, anger, cruelty, and vanity dictate her actions. Her mastery of sensual love now broadens into spiritual love.

It is beyond the distinction drawn by Renaissance artists of the two kinds of love: amore vulgare, Earthly love experienced by the senses that tempts one into debauchery; and amore celeste, the noble, spiritual love that leads one to Heaven. Michelangelo portrayed the former as Cupid and the latter as Venus in the painting "Venus and Cupid".

He and other Renaissance painters and poets molded ancient mythological themes according to Church dogma, which further divorced the sublime experience of love from the body. The new Venus reintegrates them. She is sensual. She has no need to demurely cover her nakedness, as in the universally-recognized "Birth of Venus" by Botticelli.

Her love of beauty pervades her dealings with Mars and all others. Naturally, Mars and Venus now meet in tantric relationship. Their love is honest, evolutionary, and at once physically pleasurable and spiritually transcendental."

*Excerpted from
The Pillow Book of Venus and Her Lover - Reinventing the Myth
by Becca Tzigany and James Bertrand