Title in Swedish: Offer till Venus – (Workshop Of Peter Paul Rubens) Previous Next


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Date: 1630

Size: 2100 x 1950 cm

Museum: Nationalmuseum (Stockholm, Sweden)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

The puttis in this painting by Rubens are picking apples in honour of Venus, the goddess of love. Venus, who is present in the painting in the form of a statue receives a basket full from two of them. The entire painting is really one great celebration of the power of love.Worship of Venus is a pendant to The Andrians. The paintings are copies of Titian. The themes of the paintings come from the Greek thinker Philostratos

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