Offered by Antichità Castelbarco
Workshop of Filippo Lauri (Rome, 1623 – 1694)
Idyll between Venus and Adonis
Oil on canvas
49 x 65 cm. - Framed 65 x 82 cm.
Excellent condition
The beautiful painting on offer, depicting a love scene between Venus and Adonis, is attributed to an artist active in Rome in the mid-seventeenth century, who trained following the stylistic and compositional examples of the Roman Filippo Lauri (Rome, 1623 – 1694).
This type of mythological representation enjoyed great success, especially in Rome in the first part of the 17th century: at the beginning with Poussin, 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, whose renowned workshop we can easily compare to the painting in question, was the author of exquisite compositions with mythological and Arcadian subjects, realised with grace and a rapid pictorial style, so much so that he obtained extraordinary success with the demanding aristocracy of the capital.
In particular, in the painting in question, we see a depiction of the love affair 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 beautiful hunter everywhere he went on his hunting expeditions, no longer paying attention to her usual occupations.
Here we see them surrounded by numerous playful cupids, representing amorous passion and therefore life, and by her handmaidens, the Three Graces, intent on cooling themselves in the pool of water. Other cherubs enliven the scene: one playfully guides the goddess's chariot pulled by doves, another entertains Adonis's two greyhounds, and a third embraces a swan.
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