Alongside Venus stands her son Amor with a flaming arrow in his right hand. He still holds the honeycomb in his hand and angry bees swarm around his head.
Venus is the Roman goddess of love, eternal beauty and fertility.
Amor is blindfolded and sits on a sphere, the symbol for ‘the truth’. Venus and Amor (also known as Venus and Cupid) is a c. 1524 painting by the German painter and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger, conserved in the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland.Although the work is Holbein's earliest mythological painting, depicting the Roman goddess of love, Venus, with her son Amor (), the model is believed to be his friend Magdalena Offenburg. Venus fue la diosa del amor, la belleza y la fertilidad de la mitología romana a quien se adoraba y festejaba en muchas fiestas y mitos religiosos romanos.Desde el siglo III a. C., la creciente helenización de las clases altas romanas la identificó con la diosa griega Afrodita.Era la esposa de Vulcano. The young Amor has stolen some honey. With his left hand he tugs at Venus’s cloak to get her attention. німецька: Venus, Amor und Satyr Jupiter, Antiope and Cupid. Amor is also a personification of love. His mother Venus is teaching him a lesson here: the burning arrows of desire with which he so often wounds people are just as painful as the bee stings, and now he’s getting a taste of his own medicine.
Venus is the Roman goddess of love, eternal beauty and fertility.
Amor is blindfolded and sits on a sphere, the symbol for ‘the truth’. Venus and Amor (also known as Venus and Cupid) is a c. 1524 painting by the German painter and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger, conserved in the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland.Although the work is Holbein's earliest mythological painting, depicting the Roman goddess of love, Venus, with her son Amor (), the model is believed to be his friend Magdalena Offenburg. Venus fue la diosa del amor, la belleza y la fertilidad de la mitología romana a quien se adoraba y festejaba en muchas fiestas y mitos religiosos romanos.Desde el siglo III a. C., la creciente helenización de las clases altas romanas la identificó con la diosa griega Afrodita.Era la esposa de Vulcano. The young Amor has stolen some honey. With his left hand he tugs at Venus’s cloak to get her attention. німецька: Venus, Amor und Satyr Jupiter, Antiope and Cupid. Amor is also a personification of love. His mother Venus is teaching him a lesson here: the burning arrows of desire with which he so often wounds people are just as painful as the bee stings, and now he’s getting a taste of his own medicine.