Artist: Johann Wilhelm Baur
Date: 1641
Museum: Museu da Fundação Dionísio Pinheiro e Alice Cardoso Pinheiro (Águeda, Portugal)
Technique: Oil On Copper
In a landscape with trees, in the foreground, there are two figures, a feminine and a masculine one, the latter of which lies dead. Besides him there is a quiver of arrows. Standing still, two dogs watch the scene.This scene portrays the moment when Venus panics after knowing that Adonis, his young and handsome lover, had been killed by a wild boar. In order to pay him homage, she transforms his corpse into a flower that would be named after him, as it is described in Metamorphoses (10.717-739).
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