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[edit]DescriptionHerculanum et Pompéi, recueil général des peintures, bronzes, mosaïques, etc., découverts jusqu'à ce jour, et reproduits d'apreès Le antichita di Ercolano, Il Museo borbonico, et tous les ouvrages (14596548879).jpg |
English: Drawing of a fresco of Venus Armed with Cupid found in Pompeii by Henri Roux the Elder, 1870. Translated accompanying text: "According to Pausanias, Venus was the most ancient of the Fates, that is to say that the law of generation is the first, the most imperious of those which govern the universe and which are called Destinies. It is again to express this irresistible power, that at Cyprus, at Corinth, at Lacedaemon, Venus has been painted with a spear in her hand, under the name of Venus armed or lance-bearer. Aphrodite Hoplismene (or with spear, spade).
"Venus armed provided the subject of a charming Greek epigram, reproduced by Ausone in a translation which, rare thing, seems to us above the original: Armatam vidit Venerem Lacedaemone Pallas; Nunc certemus, ait, judice vel Paride. Cui Venus: Armatam nunc me'temeraria temnis, Quae quo te vici tempore nuda fui. “'Pallas saw Venus armed at Lacedaemon, and said to her: Let us fight now, even if Paris were still our judge. Reckless! replies Cythérée, do you really dare to insult, when she is under arms, the one who, completely naked, knew how to prevail over you?' "The golden apple, placed on the section of column where the goddess is leaning, recalls in itself the scene of Mount Ida: it is, even without the spear, one of the attributes of victorious Venus. Perhaps she is preparing to fight Pallas; perhaps the painter wanted to make an allusion to the epigram of the Anthology. It would therefore be in order to make the combat more fair that she lays down, in a casket presented to her by her son, this belt where sit Love, and Desire, furtive Maintenance, and sweet Deceit, which delights the reason of the wisest. This detached tie lets fall, onto her yellowish boots, the usual adornment of the goddess of beauty, her golden coat lined with sky blue, in large and rich folds, and which the ancients designated by her name. The goddess wears a diadem adorned with three precious stones, earrings formed of three pearls, and uti pericarpion or bracelet on the right wrist. "In the vignette, one will notice the naturalness of the movement of the goats and of the rustic putto milking one of them: the other putto arrives with a kind of bucket, as if to perform the same task." Identifier: herculanumetpomp18703barr (find matches) |
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