{"id":1177,"date":"2016-08-11T11:57:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T08:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honargardi.com\/en\/2016\/08\/11\/cupid-complaining-to-venus\/"},"modified":"2016-08-11T11:57:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T08:27:48","slug":"cupid-complaining-to-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/honargardi.com\/en\/cupid-complaining-to-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cupid complaining to Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a subject Cranach painted many times:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/paintings\/glossary\/cupid\">Cupid<\/a>, having stolen honeycomb from a tree, has been stung by a swarm of angry bees. Disconsolate and still clutching the honeycomb, he looks up to his mother\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/paintings\/glossary\/venus\">Venus<\/a>\u00a0for comfort. She, however, seems to have little sympathy and instead directs her attention towards the viewer of the painting.<\/p>\n<p>This version was painted around 1525. The subject is based on a third-century Greek poem by Theocritus, in which Venus unsympathetically laughs at her son, Cupid, when he tells her that he has been stung. She likens the bee stings and their pain to wounds he inflicts when he shoots people with his love arrows. The inscription in the top right of the painting refers to the poem, \u201clife&#8217;s pleasure is mixed with pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1348\" src=\"http:\/\/honargardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Lucas_Cranach_re.jpg\" alt=\"Lucas_Cranach_re\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1466\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cranach reiterates themes of love and temptation throughout the painting, most obviously with Venus\u2019s nudity and the erotic nature of her pose. Her elongated body is typical of many of Cranach\u2019s nudes, and was probably intended to appeal to the tastes of Cranach\u2019s patrons, including the Elector of Saxony for whom this work may have been produced.<\/p>\n<p>The tree, heavy and ripe with apples, may\u00a0also be\u00a0symbolic. The manner in which Venus grasps the branch is perhaps a deliberate and purposeful reference to the temptress\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/paintings\/glossary\/adam-and-eve\">Eve<\/a>\u00a0and forbidden fruit. The apple is also often associated with Venus and another love story wrought with pain: the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/paintings\/glossary\/judgement-of-paris\">Judgement of Paris<\/a>\u00a0in which Paris presents Venus with the golden apple and is promised the love of Helen in return, thus sparking the Trojan War.<\/p>\n<p>By directing Venus\u2019s knowing gaze at the viewer, is Cranach evoking collusion \u2013 implying that she shares the moral with the viewer? Or is he warning them against temptation?<\/p>\n<p>Source :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/paintings\/picture-of-the-month-august\" target=\"_blank\">nationalgallery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a subject Cranach painted many times:\u00a0Cupid, having stolen honeycomb from a tree, has been stung by a swarm of angry bees. Disconsolate and still clutching the honeycomb, he looks up to his mother\u00a0Venus\u00a0for comfort. 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