Venus and Cupid (Lambert Sustris)
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| Venus and Cupid |
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| Lambert Sustris , around 1554 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 132 × 184 cm |
| Louvre |
Venus and Cupid is a painting by the Dutch painter Lambert Sustris , who mainly worked in Italy . It is also known as Venus and Love and was probably painted around 1554. Today the oil painting hangs in the Musée du Louvre in Paris
Lambert Sustris, at the time an employee in Titian's workshop, created an unusual work with this large-format painting. He apparently oriented himself on the colorism of his master Titian, who often painted such depictions of Venus. However, the composition of the oil painting differs significantly from that of other Venetian painters. The strongly articulating nude figure of the goddess of love Venus is clearly elongated. The peaceful union of two pigeons in the middle at the bottom of the picture has never been seen before. In contrast to other contemporaries, he attached great importance to the precise execution of the accessories: the carvings, scarves and borders are precisely represented.
With Mars , the god of war, approaching , the humanistic idea of the birth of harmony out of love becomes clearer than was the case with Giorgione or Titian.
literature
Much of the information in this article has been obtained from the following sources:
- Gabriele Bartz, Eberhard König: Louvre. Art and architecture. Könemann, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8331-1425-8 , pp. 312-313