Much of the fiction for the 'canals and deserts" or Lowellian Mars drew upon the imagery of the Thousand and One Arabian Nights (
Lieut. Gullivar got to Mars on a Magic Carpet), British adventure stories about India (particularly the Northwest Frontier), stories and speculations about Tibet, and romances about Ancient Egypt. The whole genre of Eastern Adventure/fantasy was very important. If you plan to make Venus
Space Africa then make Mars
Space Asia.
Jupiter's Moons could draw from the imagery of Early Modern Europe, Mercury (use the Twilight habitable area trope) could be MesoAmerica, and the Asteriods could use South Seas imagery.