Venus ruega a su hijo que hiera con una de sus flechas el corazon de Pluton · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Venus ruega a su hijo que hiera con una de sus flechas el corazon de Pluton
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome
Description: The goddess Venus and her winged son Cupid are illustrated looking at each other as they float on a bed of clouds. Venus instructs her son to shoot one of his arrows into the heart of Pluto, the god of the Underworld, to make him fall in love with the first woman he sees. Cupid is depicted holding his bow and arrows in his hands. Pluto is illustrated at the bottom of the image riding a horse-drawn chariot. He ends up falling in love with Proserpina, the daughter of the goddess Ceres. There are two doves illustrated touching beaks beside Venus and Cupid. Doves are a symbol of love and are often linked with Venus in iconography.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24970
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 (1809)
Image: mta_24970_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Venus; Cupid; Pluto; Gods; Goddesses; Love; Mythology