EROS in LATER PAGAN art

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # IX002671, Mars and Venus by Follower of Hendrick de Clerck, ca. 17th century, Cupid:

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/000Free/000Ares/source/3.html, Ares Album:

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # CS007167, Allegory (Venus, Mars, Flora, Cupid) by Paris Bordone, (Mars Disarming Amor, 16th century):

Mars is the god of war.  Therefore, I can see that this is an accurate portrayal.  Now, let’s try to get those love arrows back.

http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/b/bordone/ven_mars.html, Venus and Mars with Cupid, Bordone, Paris, 1559-60:

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/viewonezoom.asp?dep=11&viewmode=1&mark=1&item=10.189:

Mars and Venus United by Love, Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (Italian, Venetian, 1528–1588)

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/v/veronese/z_other/, Various paintings by Paolo VERONESE, “Mars and Venus United by Love, c. 1570”:

http://www.pixelcreation.fr/diaporama/diapo.asp?Code=203&Pos=11, Art vénitien (Venetian art): Véronèse (11/20), Paolo Véronèse, Mars et Vénus avec Amour (Mars and Venus with Love):

http://www.ballandclaw.com/dulwich/dpg.html, The Dulwich Picture Gallery:

This Rubens is shows Cupid with his parents, Venus and Mars. Cupid is receiving breast milk, not by suckling, but from an aeriel stream. It is disturbing to many men, as it fully confronts the dual nature of the breast as functional and sexual.

http://www.artunframed.com/giordano.htm, Giordano 1632-1705, “Venus, Cupid and Mars”:

http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/images/haifa/h111.jpg (via http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/gods/aphrodite_i.html) (Univ. of Victoria), Aphrodite:

Venus and Adonis (and little Eros) … Rubens, Peter Paul, ca 1610.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/lovr/ho_53.522.28.htm, Venus and Adonis, ca. 1556-57, by Giorgio Ghisi:

Ovid tells us that Venus, grazed by Cupid's arrow, fell in love with Adonis and urged him not to hunt dangerous animals (Metamorphoses 10.519ff.).

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/08/eustn/ho_1986.138.htm, Venus and Cupid, possibly mid-1520s Lorenzo Lotto:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tita/ho_36.29.htm, Venus and the Lute Player, ca. 1565—70 Titian and Workshop:

http://www.abcgallery.com/C/cranach/cranach3.html (Olga’s Gallery), Lucas Cranach the Elder. Venus and Cupid. 1509:

http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/images/haifa/h115.jpg (via http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/gods/aphrodite_i.html) (Univ. of Victoria), Aphrodite:

Venus with a mirror … Titian, 1552-1555.

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/000Free/000Aphrodite/source/14.html, 1908: Rudolph Tegner, 1873-1950: Aphrodite's belt, 1924-25. Rudolph Tegners Museum:

Late Nineteenth Century Art, Hansen, 1972, p. 150, “Venus and Cupid”:

P. 153:

http://homepage2.nifty.com/libertestyle/121965.jpg (via http://homepage2.nifty.com/libertestyle/business%20art.html), L’ART, “Venus Rising from the Waves”:

TITLE: Venus Rising from the Waves
ARTIST: Francois Boucher
WORK DATE: 1776

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~mjoseph/CP/plate.jpg (via http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~mjoseph/CP/ICP.html), Images of Cupid and Psyche:

Venus and Cupid, Plate with Venus in her chariot and Cupid, riding through a night sky, Attributed to Nicola da Urbino; tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), diameter: .258 m (10 1/8 in.)c.1530/1535.

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # HT009071, Venus and Cupid by Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-1534:

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # CAL-F-007927-0000, Toilet of Venus by Annibale Carracci, 1598-1599:

http://www.i-a-s.com/PinakothekPhoto-albun12-venus.phtml, Venus Attended by Nymphs and Cupids, 1633:

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # IH070191, Nymph and Cupid From the Fontaine des Innocents, 1549:

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # CS008438, Nymphs Playing a Board Game with Love Holding the Prize by Antonio Canova, ca. 18th-19th century:

http://imgsrv.beniculturali.it/fotoweb/Preview.fwx?position=2120&folderid=5011&search=&sorting=modifytime, Capolavori di Canova esposti dal 22 novembre 2003 al 12 aprile 2004 al Museo Civico di Bassano del Grappa e alla Gipsoteca di Possagno. IDArticolo 10193 IDEventi33685:

http://www.dicara-cameos.co.uk/images/cherubs.jpg, NYMPHS AND CHERUBS:

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG65, Cephalus and Aurora; 1627-30; POUSSIN, Nicolas:

Aurora, goddess of dawn, fell in love with the mortal Cephalus and tried to seduce him. He thought only of his wife Procris and rejected her. Poussin shows the cause of Cephalus' rejection of Aurora through the putto holding up Procris' portrait, a detail not included in the best-known version of the story in Book 7 of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. … The pose of Cephalus is similar to that of Bacchus in Titian's 'Bacchus and Ariadne', which was in Rome when Poussin was painting there

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/rubens/garden_of_love.jpg.html, RUBENS, Peter Paul: Garden of Love, c. 1630-32:

http://www.fotos.org/galeria/showphoto.php/photo/6266/cat/559/page/1, “Raffaello-The-Triumph-of-Galatea” (1511):

http://www.picturestore.com.au/index.asp, William Adolphe Bouguereau>Awakening Heart:

http://ngrand78.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_ngrand78_archive.html, “Seller of Cupids – 1763 | Joseph-Marie Vien”:

http://humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=c&a=p&ID=623, The Cupid Seller by Joseph Marie Vien (1763):

Eros: The God of Love in Legend and Art, Irene Korn, 1999, p. 90, “The Seller of Cupids”:

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # MA12462A, Love Pursuing a Dove by Jean Honore Fragonard:

A dove is the bird of Aphrodite.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/lovr/ho_49.97.479.htm, Cupid with the Arms of Mars, ca. 1547–62:

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # EL003888, Detail of Cupid from The Breaching of the Isthmus of the Suez by Pietro Magni, 1863 ?, Located in: Civico Museo Revoltella:

http://www.abcgallery.com/T/titian/titian109.html, Cupid with the Wheel of Fortune, c.1520:

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # SF37885, Illustration of Shakespeare's Cupid, ca. 1675:

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # DE006506, European Rococo Sofa With Ornamental Sculpture, ca. 1771:

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # EG001401, Wooden-Handled Metal Door Fitting:

http://users.primushost.com/~antiquew/invcup.htm, Cupids:

Item #: cupid35. Button: Musical Cupid. As a locket available with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/04/b2003/hm4_1_08_2.html:

Jupiter, Mercury and Cupid, Mars and Neptune Surrounded by Zodiac Signs, 16th Century, Italy

Notice how only one of all those gods was used in Christian art: the god of sexual love.

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # CS009627, Calliope and Homer by Antonio Canova:

He’s helping me gather my needed information.

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # DE005217, Nude Roman Goddess Sitting in Clouds from the Roman Goddess Ceiling by Giuseppe Cesari, ca. 1568-1640:

I would marry her.

EROS – Non-Christian – Erotic Scenes / Kissing:

http://www.artprints-on-demand.co.uk/noframes/rubens/feast_venus.htm, Peter Paul Rubens - Feast of Venus, 1630-40:

http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # BE087724, Detail of Nymphs, Satyrs and Pan from The Feast of Venus by Peter Paul Rubens:

http://www.italyemb.org.sg/tourism/titian.html, Titian, “Homage to Venus (1518-19)”:

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/000Free/000VenusAmor/source/30.html, John Gibson 1790-1860: Venus and Cupid. Marble. Victoria and Albert Museum, London:

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/000Free/000VenusAmor/source/8.html, Jacopo Negretti gennant Palmo il Giovane. Venedig 1548-1628: Venus & Amor in der Schmiede des Vulkan, 1605-10:

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?submit-button=SUMMARY&$03/1803%20index%20mus_obj_parts=.&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXSPFX_=full/t:

Joseph Nollekens, R.A. (1737 – 1823), Cupid and Psyche, 1773

http://www.eyeconart.net/history/Baroque/mannerism.htm, Bronzino: Venus, Cupid, Time, and Folly, (1540s):

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG651, The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square London: An Allegory with Venus and Cupid, probably 1540-50, BRONZINO 1503 - 1572:

Also see my Bacchus page (Bacchanal) for more of Eros.

EROS – Non-Christian -- Older looking:

http://creative.gettyimages.com/, Search # hu8105-001, Cupid Resting:

A statue of Cupid, the Roman god of love, resting with his bow and arrows, from the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth.

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