Adonis1.0032

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OGCMA s.v. "Adonis"

Tiziano Vecellio and studio, "Venus and Adonis," painting, after 1554, Metropolitan Museum, New York, inv. 49.7.16

Heilbrunn Timeline with up-to-date links (click above)

H. Wethey, The Paintings of Titian: the mythological and historical paintings (vol. 3) (London: Phaidon, 1975).

Venus attempting to hold Adonis back from the hunt, with Cupid and hunting dogs nearby

Titian and his studio did several copies and variants. The earliest (considered the prototype) is in Prado, inv. no. 422. 0027Adonis_Titian1

Palazzo Barberini, no. 922 is 0027Adonis_Titian5

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled forThe Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.