Venus Wounded by a Rose's Thorn

c. 1516 Sheet: 26.1 x 16.8 cm (10 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.) Source image
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This composition alludes to The Lament for Adonis by the Greek poet Bion (active about 100 BCE). In the poem, Venus, distraught by the death of her lover Adonis, wanders barefoot in the woods and is wounded by brambles. Although Bion implores Venus to “weep no longer in the th...

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