19th century

XIX century

Venus and Adonis

Alabaster, cm alt. 16

The small sculpture entitled Venus and Adonis depicts the goddess in a tender embrace with her beloved. Adonis was a handsome and charming boy who spent his free time hunting. One day Venus, while watching him walk in the woods, was accidentally scratched by one of the arrows of cupid falling in a moment in deep love. The strong passion between the two aroused however the anger of Mars, the god of war, who to succeed in getting back the beloved all for himself devised a very simple plan: he would transform into a wild boar and would strike Adonis a mortal blow.  This happened. During a hunting trip the young Adonis met the animal, which in reality was disguised as Mars, who mortally wounded him. The laments of the beloved reached the ears of Venus who, as she rushed to her bed, tried in vain to save him, but Adonis, now dead, had no choice but to descend into the world of hell. 

The despair of Venus was such that the powerful, pious Zeus allowed the two beloved to reunite: every spring Adonis could return to the world of the living to embrace the much-loved Venus and spend with her a part of the year; but, at the arrival of the first cold, Adonis would have to return into the darkness of death. 

The sculpture represents a moment of deep intimacy and tenderness between the two young people, the moment captured is that of a tender embrace where Adonus touches with his fingers the face of the beloved while the goddess languidly abandons her head towards the shoulder of the lover, in an intense game of looks.  

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