Venus blindfolding Cupid

Image credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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This painting is a reduced, careful copy of the painting by Titian in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, dating from c.1565 which was in the Borghese collection by 1613. The subject has been variously interpreted as the Education or the Punishment of Love and may be an allegory of Love in its different guises. Titian altered the appearance of the figure of Venus as he painted.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

Venus blindfolding Cupid

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 45.1 x W 72 cm

Accession number

WA.OA903

Acquisition method

Acquired

Work type

Painting

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