Cleveland Museum of Art
Ceres and Bacchus
Bartholomaeus Spranger
- Date
- 1600s
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- Flanders
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This painting is a copy of a print by Jan Harmensz Muller (Dutch, 1571–1628), originally based on a painting by Spranger. Spranger often used the iconography of Ceres and Bacchus, two important agricultural deities. Muller's print has the Latin inscription Sine Cerere et Bacchio friget Venus , which translates to "without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus grows cold." The motto indicates that Love, represented by Venus, is impossible without the nourishment of food and drink, as the deities of grain and wine walk hand in hand.
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