Cleveland Museum of Art
Landscape with Venus and Adonis
Gillis van Coninxloo
- Date
- 1580s
- Medium
- oil on copper
- Culture
- Netherlands, 16th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Venus, the goddess of love, is unsuccessful in dissuading her mortal lover Adonis from hunting the boar that would eventually kill him. The artist nestles this story in the foreground of an expansive view with Germanic architecture, rather than a classical setting. Woodlands were relatively new subjects in European painting and this work points toward the full-blown forested landscapes of the 1600s.
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