Venus takes Cupid's bow away from him: he asks for it back. Engraving by G.B. Cavalieri, 1594.

  • Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1525-1601.
Date:
1594
Reference:
2815128i
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Description

Apparently an interpretation or reconstruction of a statue of the crouching Venus. According to the lettering, this statue was in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome: a courtyard there contained many famous sculptures. It may be the one referred to by Haskell and Penny (p. 323) as being in Naples and having been drawn by Maerten van Heemskerck.

Publication/Creation

1594

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image and lettering 22.2 x 13.5 cm

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Lettering

Venus corollaria in aedibus farnesianis "Venus corollaria": meaning Venus wearing a chaplet or hairband

References note

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique. The lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, pp. 321-323

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2815128i

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