Venus aconseja a Adonis que solo caze animales indefensos · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Venus aconseja a Adonis que solo caze animales indefensos
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Cyprus; Ancient Greece
Description: This engraving depicts the goddess Venus sitting on the ground as she holds her new lover Adonis. Venus had been admiring Adonis from afar when her son Cupid had accidentally scratched her with one of his arrows which then caused her to fall in love with him. She decides to abandon her love of watching over her cities and she forgets the heavens all to focus on Adonis. She even decides to start dressing up like her sister, Diana, a huntress. There are cherubs and doves surrounding the two lovers as those are two symbols of the goddess.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25099
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_25099_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Adonis; Venus; Cupid; Mythology; Gods; Goddesses