Idyll between Venus and Adonis, Workshop of Filippo Lauri (Rome, 1623 – 1694)

Workshop of Filippo Lauri (Rome, 1623 – 1694)
Idyll between Venus and Adonis

Oil on canvas (49 x 65 cm. – In frame 65 x 82 cm.)

Very good condition

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The beautiful painting proposed, depicting a love scene between Venus and Adonis, is attributed to an artist active in Rome in the mid-seventeenth century, trained on the stylistic and compositional examples of the Roman Filippo Lauri (Rome, 1623 – 1694).

This type of representation with a mythological character enjoyed great success especially in Rome in the first part of the 17th century: initially with Poussin, as the main exponent in the direct wake of Titian, then continuing with authoritative masters such as Lorrain, Spierinck and Lauri himself, artists who contributed to developing this theme in a fascinating convergence of artistic ideas.

Lauri, in particular, to whose renowned workshop we can easily associate the painting in question, was the author of exquisite compositions with mythological and Arcadian subjects, created with grace and rapid pictorialism, so much so that he obtained extraordinary success with the demanding aristocracy of the capital.

In particular, in the proposed painting, we see a representation of the love idyll between the most beautiful of the goddesses, Venus, and the young mortal Adonis, an episode taken from classical sources and in particular from the Latin poet Ovid (Metamorphoses X, 525-559), with the two lovers immortalised in a moment of tenderness.

Madly in love with her beloved, thanks to the help of an arrow shot by Cupid, the goddess decided to follow the handsome hunter everywhere in his hunting activity, no longer paying attention to her usual occupations.

Here we see them surrounded by numerous playful cupids, who represent amorous passion and therefore life, and by her maids, the Three Graces, intent on refreshing themselves in the mirror of water. Other cupids enliven the scene, one playfully driving the goddess's chariot pulled by doves, another playing with Adonis's two greyhounds, a third embracing a swan.

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