LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: Adonis

Venus and Adonis 1550s Object Details Artist: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485/90?–1576 Venice) Date: 1550s Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 42 x 52 1/2 in. (106.7 x 133.4 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949 Accession Number: 49.7.16 Tales from Ovid’s Metamorphoses inspired Titian to paint what he called poesie, or poetry in paint. Here, Venus tries to stop her lover from departing for the hunt, fearing—correctly—that he would be killed. The mood of sensuality, conveyed by the beautiful depiction of Venus from the back, enhances the viewer’s sense of the tragic end to this story, expressed through their exchanged glances and the frightened Cupid. Titian’s workshop made multiple versions of this composition, but this one is of exceptional quality and was painted by Titian himself. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437826

Venus and Adonis 1550s Object Details Artist: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485/90?–1576 Venice) Date: 1550s Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 42 x 52 1/2 in. (106.7 x 133.4 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949 Accession Number: 49.7.16 Tales from Ovid’s Metamorphoses inspired Titian to paint what he called poesie, or poetry in paint. Here, Venus tries to stop her lover from departing for the hunt, fearing—correctly—that he would be killed. The mood of sensuality, conveyed by the beautiful depiction of Venus from the back, enhances the viewer’s sense of the tragic end to this story, expressed through their exchanged glances and the frightened Cupid. Titian’s workshop made multiple versions of this composition, but this one is of exceptional quality and was painted by Titian himself. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437826

Venus and Adonis 1550s Object Details Artist: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485/90?–1576 Venice) Date: 1550s Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 42 x 52 1/2 in. (106.7 x 133.4 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949 Accession Number: 49.7.16 Tales from Ovid’s Metamorphoses inspired Titian to paint what he called poesie, or poetry in paint. Here, Venus tries to stop her lover from departing for the hunt, fearing—correctly—that he would be killed. The mood of sensuality, conveyed by the beautiful depiction of Venus from the back, enhances the viewer’s sense of the tragic end to this story, expressed through their exchanged glances and the frightened Cupid. Titian’s workshop made multiple versions of this composition, but this one is of exceptional quality and was painted by Titian himself. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437826

Venus and Adonis 1550s Object Details Artist: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485/90?–1576 Venice) Date: 1550s Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 42 x 52 1/2 in. (106.7 x 133.4 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949 Accession Number: 49.7.16 Tales from Ovid’s Metamorphoses inspired Titian to paint what he called poesie, or poetry in paint. Here, Venus tries to stop her lover from departing for the hunt, fearing—correctly—that he would be killed. The mood of sensuality, conveyed by the beautiful depiction of Venus from the back, enhances the viewer’s sense of the tragic end to this story, expressed through their exchanged glances and the frightened Cupid. Titian’s workshop made multiple versions of this composition, but this one is of exceptional quality and was painted by Titian himself. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437826

Mixing Vessel with Adonis, Aphrodite, and Persephone Greek, made in Athens, 390-380 BC Terracotta Red-figured dinoid volute krater and stand attributed to the Meleager Painter Inventory # 87.AE.93 On this vesel's neck, Adonis reclines on a couch between Aphrodite and Persephone (goddess of the Underworld). According to myth, Aphrodite fell in love with the young mortal. She shut him up in a chest and entrusted him to Persephone so that no one else could share in his beauty, but Persephone opened it and fell in love with him, too. The goddesses fought over his attention until Zeus intervened. He declared that Adonis would spend one third of the year with Aphrodite, one third with Persephone; the last third would be Adonis' own choice, and he devoted it to his beloved Aphrodite. Adonis' annual return to earth from the Underworld was linked with the cycle of the seasons and the regeneration of vegetation. Text from the Getty Villa museum label.