Sujet
Love in the Elysian Fields, 1563. Creator: Giulio Bonasone (Italian, c. 1510-aft 1576).
Légende
Love in the Elysian Fields, 1563. Cupid is being punished by those he tormented, a popular subject of Hellenistic art and literature revived in the Renaissance. Bound to a tree in the Elysian Fields, a dwelling place for the virtuous dead, Cupid is watched by the laughing souls of lovers as Venus descends from the sky to beat him with a bouquet of flowers in retribution for the great pain that passion often inflicts. According to the verses on the rock at left, after being whipped, Cupid will be set free to escape again "to this world where he triumphs over us."
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F92_239
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
56,4Mo (6,9Mo) / 47,0cm x 30,0cm / 5552 x 3549 (300dpi)