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Venus, Adonis and Cupid; Venus and Adonis (Titian) Venus and Adonis (Veronese, Augsburg) Venus and Adonis (Rubens, 1635) Venus and Adonis (Veronese, Madrid) Venus and Amor; Venus and Cupid (Titian) Venus and Cupid (Gentileschi) Venus and Cupid (Lotto) Venus and Cupid (Pontormo) Venus and Cupid (Sustris) Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb
Cupid was the enemy of chastity, and the poet Ovid opposes him to Diana, the virgin goddess of the hunt who likewise carries a bow but who hates Cupid's passion-provoking arrows. [71] Cupid is also at odds with Apollo, the archer-brother of Diana and patron of poetic inspiration whose love affairs almost always end disastrously. Ovid jokingly ...
Venus Disarming Cupid is an oil on canvas painting by the Venetian Renaissance master Paolo Veronese, from c. 1550. The painting is set after the Roman poet Ovid's telling of the myth of Venus, Cupid, Adonis, and Mars in Book X of his masterwork, the Metamorphoses. It is one of several works Veronese painted of the subject.
The most striking detail of this painting is the hyper-realistic depiction of Cupid's body and his expression. David's original study shows he always intended to paint Cupid in this manner, even before his exile. [7] Cupid's wings continue this style, as they are worn out and ugly, making Cupid seem to be a part of the mortal realm rather than ...
Cupid and the Graces is a cycle of six paintings by Angelica Kauffman, produced in the late 1770s during her stay in Great Britain. [ 1 ] Cupid Ties One of the Graces to a Tree ( vorarlberg Museum )
Cupid Crowned by Psyche or Psyche Crowning Cupid is an oil-on-canvas painting executed ca. 1785–1790 by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, now in the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.It shows a scene from the myth of Cupid and Psyche, with a figure of Modesty standing behind Psyche and two cupids in the background placing rose crowns on a bed and throwing incense on a tripod.
Venus, Cupid, Bacchus, and Ceres is a painting that was completed by Peter Paul Rubens between 1612–1613. It is a depiction of four figures from Roman Mythology . The painting is currently residing at the Staatliche Museen in Berlin.
The first and only major oil painting featuring a nude to be painted by Rossetti, Venus Verticordia features blatantly erotic symbolism. She is surrounded by a mass of roses and honeysuckles, during the 19th century Victorian period there was a heightened interest in the language of flowers, and these flowers would have been understood in this context as sensual metaphors of women's sexuality ...