Cleveland Museum of Art
Love in the Elysian Fields
Giulio Bonasone
- Date
- 1563
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Italy, 16th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
In this engraving Cupid is shown being punished by those he tormented, a popular subject of Hellenistic art and literature revived in the Renaissance. Bound to a tree in the Elysian Fields, a dwelling place for the virtuous dead, Cupid is watched by the laughing souls of lovers as Venus descends from the sky to beat him with a bouquet of flowers in retribution for the great pain that passion often inflicts. According to the verses on the rock at left, after being whipped Cupid will be set free to escape again "to this world where he triumphs over us."
The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Cleveland Museum of Art and other institutions.
Venus and Cupid (after Raphael) (2000.26)
Getty Museum
Cupid Complaining to Venus
Cleveland Museum of Art
Venus Wounded by a Rose's Thorn
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Gods Celebrating the Wedding of Psyche and Cupid
Art Institute of Chicago
A Young Man Climbing a Hillside Aided by Cupid, from Allegory of the Misuse of Worldly Property
Art Institute of Chicago
Cupid Chastised
Art Institute of Chicago
Venus and Adonis
Rijksmuseum
Venus and Adonis
Getty Museum
Venus, Three Graces, and Cupid Mourning the Death of Adonis
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Cupid and Pan
Getty Museum
Mars, Venus and Cupid
Art Institute of Chicago
Venus Kindling a Fire in the Castle from which the Personifications of Shame, Anxiety, and Resistance Depart
Getty Museum