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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Cupid Brings Mars To Venus
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Cupid Brings Mars To Venus

CultureItalian
Date17th century
MediumPen, ink, laid paper
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/16 x 12 1/4 in. (25.6 x 31.1 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 x 22 in. (40.6 x 55.9 cm)
Inscribed"W Prineta" written along bottom edge at center.
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number50.49.35
Not on view
DescriptionPen and ink drawing on laid paper. Laid paper mounted. A nude Venus, lounging. Cupid draws back a curtain, bringing Mars to her.

Exhibition HistoryCummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL, Aug.-Sept. 15, 1965.
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2018.
Jan van Bijlert
After 1630
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Severo di Domenico Calzetta (Severo da Ravenna)
1500-1599
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Tiziano Aspetti
1550
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino)
ca. 1644
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino)
16th century-18th century
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2014.
Gustave Doré
ca. 1869
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Salvator Rosa
17th century
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
after 1770
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Francesco Bartolozzi
1727-1815