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Creator

Filippo Lauri

Title

Venus and Adonis

Date Created

circa 1671

Spatial Coverage

59 cm x 71.2 cm (23 1/4 in. x 28 1/16 in.)

Identifier

361.1999

Medium

Oil on canvas

Description

Ovid’s Metamorphoses tells the tragic love story of Venus and Adonis. The goddess was so enamored of the handsome hunter that she even dressed herself like a huntress and wandered in the woods with him. But their love affair came to an abrupt end, when a boar killed Adonis. He had disregarded Venus’ warning about ferocious animals. Mourning her lover’s death, the goddess turned his blood into the anemone flower.

Filippo Lauri enhances the drama of the moment when Venus falls in love with Adonis. Cupid’s arrow inflames her with passion for Adonis, who is lying under a myrtle tree. (The tree evokes his birth from the myrtle into which his mother Myrrha transformed.) His spear and hunting dogs prefigure the confrontation with the boar, and his reclining pose foreshadows his death. In the background is the swan-drawn chariot that Venus would drive to rush back to the dying youth. By combining these visual clues from different parts of the narrative, the artist reminds the viewer of the entire story.

Rights Holder

The Suida-Manning Collection

Date

Rome, Italy, 1623 - 1694, Rome, Italy

Type

painting

Has Version

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