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Venus and Cupid by Lorenzo Lotto - USEUM
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Venus and Cupid (Lotto)
Painting by Lorenzo Lotto
| Venus and Cupid | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Lorenzo Lotto |
| Year | c. 1520s |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 92.4 cm × 111.4 cm (36.4 in × 43.9 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Accession | 1986.138 |
| Website | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Venus and Cupid is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
It has been dated to several periods, including the late 1530s and the early 1540s, but was probably created in the 1520s.[1]
It is a wedding gift for a couple of Bergamo or Venice. Such paintings were inspired by the classical tradition of wedding poetry.[1]
Description
[edit]Venus, lying on the ground and leaning on an elbow on a blue cloth, is accompanied by her son Cupid standing with his bow and quiver.
He urinates on the bride through a crown of laurels of my