Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530 - Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey - fine art print

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The scene is taken from literature, specifically the poem Cupid Stealing Honey by the classical Greek poet Theocritus.

The story behind the painting The poem tells the story of how Cupid complains to his mother, Venus (the goddess of love), of how the bees sting him because he has stolen their hive. He wonders that creatures so small can inflict so much pain. Venus laughs and tells him that their stings can be compared to the wounds that he himself inflicts on all those hit by his arrows. The brief ecstasy of love may soon be replaced by suffering and heartbreak. A sign in the top left corner refers to Theocritus’ poem.

The painting's affiliation with Philipp Melanchton Seen in the light of the fact that Cranach did illustrations for Luther’s version of the Bible and was closely associated with the inner circle of the Reformation, it is interesting that the poem was published in the name of Philipp Melanchton. Melanchton devised his own version of the teachings of Luther and founded Philippism, a movement that came to be of great importance in Denmark.

The painting was in 1759 transferred from the Kunstkammer at Gottorp Castle to the Royal Collection together with other works, making it the largest Cranach collection outside German-speaking countries.

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This classic art artpiece named Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey was created by the painter Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1530. Today, this piece of art belongs to the Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark)'s art collection, which is the largest museum of fine arts in Denmark and is attached to the Danish Ministry of Culture.. We are pleased to reference that this masterpiece, which belongs to the public domain is provided with courtesy of National Gallery of Denmark.Furthermore, the artpiece has the creditline: . In addition to that, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with an image ratio of 2 : 3, which means that the length is 33% shorter than the width. The painter Lucas Cranach the Elder was a European artist, whose art style can mainly be assigned to Northern Renaissance. The European artist was born in 1472 in Kronach, Bavaria, Germany and died at the age of 81 in the year 1553.

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