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Venus and Adonis
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Bol here painted a scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The goddess of love, Venus, and young Amor, try to deter Adonis from going on a boar hunt. Venus fears for his life. Bol – a pupil of Rembrandt – displays a smooth and bright manner of painting very different from his master's darker, coarser style. Bol used it to conjure an idealized image of reality.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineVenus and Adonis. c. 1658. Ferdinand Bol. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
