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  • Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb is an oil painting by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, one of the masters of the German Renaissance.
  • It is by the German artist Lucas Cranach, who on numerous occasions depicted Venus with an elongated, sinuous body.
  • File:Latin text presented on the top right corner of the painting Venus and Cupid with the Honeycomb.jpg.
  • To the left, the naked figure of a winged infant (Cupid), holds up a honeycomb to Venus, to whom he looks up; his body is dotted with bees.
  • Cupid, the god of erotic love, is complaining to his mother Venus, the goddess of love: he has been stung by bees while stealing a honeycomb from their hive.
  • Edit attribution Download full size: 1970×4910 px (1,9 Mb) Back to album: Lucas Cranach and Workshop.
  • Cranach had a large workshop and many of his works exist in different versions; his son Lucas Cranach the Younger and others continued to create versions of...
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  • Lucas Cranach the Elder began painting depictions of Venus with Cupid taking honey from a beehive in the mid-1520s.
  • Cranach decided to accompany his nude figure with a moralizing couplet by the Humanist Chelidonius which reminds us that 'voluptas' is transitory and...
  • The story of Cupid seeking the comfort of Venus after being stung by a bee while he was naively trying to steal a honeycomb belonged to Hellenistic tradition.
  • Cupid, who has just stolen a honeycomb, on the other hand, has the angry bees on his neck.