Venus Between Two Cupids
- Title:
- Venus Between Two Cupids
- Collection:
- Cornell Gem Impressions Collection
- Date:
- 19th century
- ID Number:
- GI_05_004
- Accession Number:
- 05_2_0561
- Winckelmann No.:
- 561
- File Name:
- GI_05_004.jpg
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- casting (process)
Pâte ant - Subject:
- Venus (Roman deity)
Aphrodite
cupids
apple (fruit)
palm leaf (material)
crown
crescents (motifs)
Apollo
Heads
column
Venus (Roman deity)
Aphrodite (Greek deity)
Cupid (Roman deity)
Apples
palm leaf (material)
Crowns
Apollo (Greek deity)
head
column
Sun - Description:
- Venus holds an apple in her right hand and a palm in her left as she leans on a column. One holds a torch and has a radiating head of Apollo, or a sun, above. The other holds a palm and Venus' crown. Two heads above look down at him. One is decorated with a crescent and may be associated with Diana.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Archival Collection:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Gems Collection (in part the White Collection of Historical Medallions, #8420, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections) is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the age of the underlying material, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2013 from original materials, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Caitlin Barrett and Verity Platt. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.