@Beau Skunky
 
The “Fine Art Parody” tag’s the one you want.
 
~STL

I’d love to see more IRL paintings redone/ponified like this personally.

@Background Pony #E444  
If you think about the myth of Artemis and Actaeon, you can certainly say that “punishment” is an understatement. But if you think about the myth of Tiresias: Tiresias was blinded by Athena after he stumbled onto her bathing naked, but then he received from her the gift of prophecy as a “reparation”. Goddesses were not always killers.  
As for Aphrodite, things are even more complicated. In Syracuse (Sicily) there was a temple dedicated to the Aphrodite “Kallipygos” (literally, “Aphrodite-beautiful buttocks”), in which the buttocks of the goddess were literally worshipped.

@brogor  
“in the greek myths, voyeur men who watch naked goddesses without their consent are severely punished”
 
Now THERE’S an understatement.

@cdcdrr  
Sandro Botticelli painted Venus in the posture of the “Venus Pudica” (“modest Venus”). It was one of the most common poses used by the greek sculptors for the statues of Aphrodite, beginning with the Aphrodite of Knidos (about 360 BC). With this posture, in which the goddess covers her “pudenda” (her vulva and sometimes also her chest), the artist achieves two purposes: to give dignity to the goddess (in the greek myths, voyeur men who watch naked goddesses without their consent are severely punished); and, obviously, to draw the attention of the observer to the hidden area.

I never understood why in this painting Venus herself bothers to cover herself. You’re a love goddess, so you might as well strut your stuff.

Beautifully done, but I feel it should be Cadance. She’s the closer match to Aphrodite. Still, that’s more of a nitpick than anything.

Aaaaaaabs

Best rendition of this one by far.

Dayum. Twilight’s got a hell of a six pack going on there.
 
~STL