Venus and Adonis - 19th century
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19th century Venus and Adonis Alabaster, cm alt. 16 The small sculpture entitled Venus and Adonis depicts the goddess in a tender embrace with her beloved. Adonis was a handsome and charming boy who was devoted to hunting in his spare time. One day Venus, while watching him walk in the woods, was accidentally scratched by one of cupid's arrows, falling in an instant into a deep love. The strong passion between the two, however, aroused the wrath of Mars, the god of war, who in order to get his beloved back all to himself devised a very simple plan: he would turn into a boar and inflict a fatal blow on Adonis. . This happened. During a joke of