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The Feast of Venus (Vienna version) - Rubens

Date :
1637
Type of image :
Peinture sur toile
Dimensions (HxL cm) :
217x350 cm
Topic :
Gemäldegalerie, 684

Description

Festival of Venus Verticordia, goddess of chaste love who protects against disordered passions.
Rubens began painting a variant of a composition by Titian, Homage to Venus, supposedly reproducing one of the canvases described by Philostratus (I, 6).

History :

2. Prague, imperial collection, 1685;
Vienna, imperial collection, 1733.

Indexed items :
Statue
Textual Sources :
Philostrate, La Galerie de tableaux

Technical Data

Notice #000848

Image HD

Past ID :
A0167
Image editing :
Image web
Image Origin :
Collections en ligne du Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienne (http://www.khm.at)