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Lucas Cranach the Elder: Venus with Cupid as a Honey Thief against a Black Background  wikidata:Q29952852 reasonator:Q29952852
Artist
Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Weimar
Work location
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q191748
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
German:
Venus mit Amor als Honigdieb vor schwarzem Grund Edit this at Wikidata

Venus and Cupid, the Honey Thief with black background
label QS:Lde,"Venus mit Amor als Honigdieb vor schwarzem Grund"
label QS:Len,"Venus and Cupid, the Honey Thief with black background"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Venus and Cupid Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people
Date after 1537
date QS:P571,+1537-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1537-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium painting on lime
Dimensions height: 175.4 cm (69 in); width: 66.3 cm (26.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,175.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,66.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q478695
Accession number
Gm1097
Place of creation Lutherstadt Wittenberg Edit this at Wikidata
Inscriptions

top, four line inscription in roman capitals: "DVM PVER ALVEOLO FVRATVR MELLA CVPIDO / FVRANTI DIGITVM CVSPIDE FIXIS APIS / SIC ETIAM NOBIS BREVIS ET PERITVRA VOLVPTAS / QVAM PETIMVS TRISTI MIXTA DOLORE NOCET"

English: inscriptions: dvm puer alveoli fvratvr mell a cvpido, / fvranti digitvm sedvla pvnxit apis. / sic etiam nobis brevis et moritvra volvptas / qvam petimvs tristi mixta dolore nocet
(As Cupid was stealing honey from the hive / A bee stung the thief on the finger / And so do we seek transitory and dangerous pleasures / That are mixed with sadness and bring us pain)
Metropolitan Museum
Deutsch: Dieses von Cranach in ca. 30 Varianten ab ca. 1525 gemalte Motiv geht auf das 19. Gedicht Keriokleptes (Honigdieb) der sog. Idyllen des Dichters Theokrit (um 270 v. Chr.) zurück. Hierin schildert er, wie Amor beim Stehlen von Honig von den Bienen gestochen wird und er den Schmerz bei seiner Mutter Venus beklagt, die ihm antwortet „Du bist den Bienen gleich, da du so klein bist und doch so große Schmerzen verursachst.“ Venus weist Amor daraufhin, dass die Wunden seiner Pfeile schmerzhafter seien als Bienenstiche. Theokrit betont in seiner Erzählung die Macht Amors ohne zu moralisieren. Cranach versieht alle Varianten des Themas mit einer moralisierenden Inschrift, die vor der Wollust der Venus und ihren verderblichen Konsequenzen warnt.
lucas-cranach-d-ae-venus-und-amor-als-honigdieb
Artist's insignia at the top beneath the inscription: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing
Notes Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) Nr.: FR398B
References Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 00180012
Cranach Digital Archive
Source/Photographer Photograph anagoria, Taken in 1 May 2013

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