Venus and Adonis (Q28796951)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
mythological painting (Q3374376)
artist:
Nicolas Poussin (Q41554)
collection:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
Cook collection (Q74149551)
Manchester Art Gallery (Q2638817)
location:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
Doughty House (Q5301115)
main subject:
Venus and Adonis (Q86855398)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID:
20110225
Zeri image ID:
100935
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
7gH1P5i7JO8A1Q
catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/venus-and-adonis
information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog
description: Early in his career Poussin traveled to Italy and was introduced to a circle of important Roman patrons including the antiquarian Cassiano dal Pozzo. Poussin’s classicism, nurtured by his knowledge of antique literature and art, was warmed by his study of Venetian painting. Venus and Adonis reveals the influence of Titian in composition, coloration, and mood. The composition is built in a series of opposing diagonals, highlighting Venus’s shapely limbs and soft belly and casting the lovers into shadow, foreboding Adonis’s imminent doom.
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