Venus Frigida
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Venus Frigida
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Venus Frigida is a 1611 oil on panel painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. It is one of the few works which he both signed and dated and derives its title from a quotation from the Roman playwright Terence, "sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus" i.e. love cannot survive without food and wine). He draws Venus' crouched pose from what would later be called the Lely Venus, which he saw in the Gonzaga collection during his time in Mantua. Cupid and his arrows are
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Painting by Peter Paul Rubens
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Frigida
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2023-11-25T18:18:37Z
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