Venus and Adonis is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist
Paolo Veronese, created in the early 1580s. The work illustrates a scene from the Metamorphoses, a
narrative poem by the Roman poet
Ovid. It portrays
Venus, the goddess of love, with
Adonis sleeping on her lap. She has foretold that her lover will be killed during a hunt, and she is looking down at her son
Cupid, who is restraining a
sighthound in a vain endeavour to prevent Adonis from hunting and thus precipitating his death. The painting is now in the collection of the
Museo del Prado in
Madrid.Painting credit:
Paolo Veronese
Venus and Adonis is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist
Paolo Veronese, created in the early 1580s. The work illustrates a scene from the Metamorphoses, a
narrative poem by the Roman poet
Ovid. It portrays
Venus, the goddess of love, with
Adonis sleeping on her lap. She has foretold that her lover will be killed during a hunt, and she is looking down at her son
Cupid, who is restraining a
sighthound in a vain endeavour to prevent Adonis from hunting and thus precipitating his death. The painting is now in the collection of the
Museo del Prado in
Madrid.Painting credit:
Paolo Veronese