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Venus and Adonis
Venus, the goddess of love, did not want her lover Adonis to go hunting. She was afraid that he would come to harm. Her fears were justified: Adonis was killed by a wild boar. The tall, slender figures with small heads typify Spranger’s elegant Mannerist style. The landscape is curiously old-fashioned; it was copied from an early 16th-century painting.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/92C4211
- http://iconclass.org/92D1
- http://iconclass.org/92L41
- http://iconclass.org/25I5
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/92C4211
- http://iconclass.org/92D1
- http://iconclass.org/92L41
- http://iconclass.org/25I5
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- c.1585 - c.1590
Place-Time
- fourth quarter 16th century
Provenance
- …; sale, Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950, London), London (Sotheby’s), 9 December 1953, no. 13, £ 850 to W. Sabin;{Copy RMA} …; the Arcade Gallery, London, 1954;{Note RKD.} from whom, fl. 19,213.79, to the museum, 1955
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5483
- SK-A-3888
Extent
- height 135 cm
- width 109 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:15:56.393Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:57.669Z