0415.06bErosPunishment

0415.06bErosPunishment_Allori

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Theocritus Idylls 19
Anacreontea 25
Bion Idyllion 1

Alessandro Allori, 1535 - 1607, and assistant, "Venus Disarming Cupid," c. 1570, oil on panel, Musée des Beaux Arts, Montpelier; 3 other versions are known at Los Angeles County Museum of Art K[ress Foundation] 224, inv. 35.1. 3, at Uffizi, Florence inv. 1514, and at Hampton Court Palace.

Reid cites this work incompletely at 121.38.

A Renaissance painting of a nude Venus reclining with Cupid holding her bow and two white doves by her feet.

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 for The 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.
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