Manchester Art Gallery

Venus



Venus

Summary

An allegorical figure of a woman. The subject is facing from left to right and has long wavy hair. She is carrying a large dart over her left shoulder and a flaming heart with a pierced centre in her right hand. There is an ox lying on the ground to the right and a pair of broken scales on the ground to the left.


Object Name

Venus

Date Created

1529

Dimensions

support (trimmed): 8.2cm x 5cm

accession number

1967.107

Collection Group

fine art
on paper, print
foreign

Place of creation

Germany

Support

paper

Medium

ink (black)


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