Venus Chastising Cupid

[Zephyros]

Cupid, son of Venus and god of love, can make both men and gods fall in love with each other at will with his arrows, and thus embodies unbridled passion. His mother Venus is also among his victims, as he instigated a liaison between her and Mars, the god of war, in his usual way. She was caught out by the Olympian gods and ridiculed. As a punishment, Venus burned his arrows, tied him to a myrtle tree and whipped him with rose twigs. Figuratively, the theme here is the subjugation of passion.

Giovanni Francesco Susini: Venus Chastising Cupid, 1638

Jan van Bijlert: Venus Chastising Cupid, 1628

 

[thehangingtree]

Cupid, son of Venus and god of love, can make both men and gods fall in love with each other at will with his arrows, and thus embodies unbridled passion. His mother Venus is also among his victims, as he instigated a liaison between her and Mars, the god of war, in his usual way. She was caught out by the Olympian gods and ridiculed. As a punishment, Venus burned his arrows, tied him to a myrtle tree and whipped him with rose twigs. Figuratively, the theme here is the subjugation of passion.

Giovanni Francesco Susini: Venus Chastising Cupid, 1638

Jan van Bijlert: Venus Chastising Cupid, 1628


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Women again abusing men!

 

[Apostate]

Modern art scholarship posits that Bronzino's "Allegory of Venus and Cupid" is not so much alergorical as "In-your-FACE incest porn."