The object of beauty

Love, desire and yearning sizzle through the hallways of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts this winter where the “Aphrodite and the Gods of Love” exhibition pays homage to the fiery and furious goddess of love.

The display of 170 Greek and Roman works of art, including thirteen significant loans—nine from Italian museums—will take visitors on a five-thousand-year trek from the deity’s birth from the foamy waters of Kythera.

Aphrodite and the Gods of Love

October 26, 2011-February 20

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA,

tel.: 617 267 9300

Saturday-Tuesday 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m., Wednesday-Friday 10 a.m.-9:45 p.m.;

admission $20 (adults), senior discount applies; free for MFA members and visitors under 18 years of age.