Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Peter Paul Rubens Flemish Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses (completed 8). Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s arrows, Venus fell in love with the handsome hunter Adonis. With cavalier indifference to the goddess’s charms and her warnings of danger, Adonis hunted a wild boar and was gored to death. Rubens shows their leave-taking—a popular subject also famously depicted by Titian in another picture now at The Met. Technical examination indicates that a later hand altered Adonis’s expression to make it les
Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Peter Paul Rubens Flemish Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses (completed 8). Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s arrows, Venus fell in love with the handsome hunter Adonis. With cavalier indifference to the goddess’s charms and her warnings of danger, Adonis hunted a wild boar and was gored to death. Rubens shows their leave-taking—a popular subject also famously depicted by Titian in another picture now at The Met. Technical examination indicates that a later hand altered Adonis’s expression to make it less Venus and Adonis 437535
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