Venus llora a su querido Adonis herido por un javali · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Venus llora a su querido Adonis herido por un javali
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Cyprus; Ancient Greece
Description: This engraving depicts the death of Venus’ lover Adonis. Adonis had ignored Venus’ advice on hunting smaller, less threatening animals, and had chased after a boar while on a hunt. The boar attacked Adonis by piercing his groin with one of his sharp tusks. Adonis is illustrated laying on the ground, in pain by his fatal wounds. Venus heard his groans while she was flying in her chariot drawn by swans. She found Adonis’ lifeless body and mourned over him. Venus is depicted sitting with Adonis and his hunting hound. Her cherubs are sharing the grief with her as well. She then turns his blood into an anemone flower.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25101
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1819)
Image: mta_25101_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Adonis; Venus; Mythology; Goddesses; Transformation