Landscape with Venus and Adonis, Gillis van Coninxloo, 1580s
Gillis van Coninxloo, portraitGillis van ConinxlooDutch, 1544–1607

Landscape with Venus and Adonis

1580s · Painting

May one see it?

Yes, receiving visitors

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Room118 Italian Renaissance

On public display.

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About the painting

Venus, the goddess of love, is unsuccessful in dissuading her mortal lover Adonis from hunting the boar that would eventually kill him. The artist nestles this story in the foreground of an expansive view with Germanic architecture, rather than a classical setting. Woodlands were relatively new subjects in European painting and this work points toward the full-blown forested landscapes of the 1600s.

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Particulars

Accession number
1962.293

In the catalog

Sources

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In the same room · 118 Italian Renaissance, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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