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Sex, War, and Hallucinogens

Art historian David Bellingham has discovered something interesting in Sandro Botticelli’s Mars and Venus (1479).

In the painting, Venus, the goddess of love, reclines while Mars, the god of war, sleeps. Young satyrs play with his discarded instruments of battle. It’s an iconic image of two gods...

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Sex, War, and Hallucinogens

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