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Venus and the Dead Adonis
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Landscape with ruins. In the foreground, under a tree, a mourning Venus holds the dead body of her beloved Adonis in her arms. Next to them, Amor. Below the image, text from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 10, lines 544-548. In the upper left, the sign of the Bull from the zodiac. The print is part of an album.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineVenus en de dode Adonis. 1653 - 1654. Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
