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"Venus disarming Amor" in a medallion surrounded by plants, fruits, insects and shellfish, c. 1595 (w/c and bodycolour)
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Artist
Hoefnagel, Joris (1542-1600) / Flemish
Location
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Medium
watercolour and bodycolour
Date
c. 1592 AD - c. 1596 AD (C16th AD)
Dimensions
16.2X21.7 cms
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Inscribed "Plus aloes quam mellis habent" (They contain more bitterness than sweetness) meaning earthly love (arrows of Amor/Cupid) ends in pain even if it begins sweetly; a familiar moral lesson at the time. The inscription at bottom, "Quatuor in rerum natura elementa" (the four elements of Nature) explains the flowers and fruits (which symbolise earth), butterflies (air), the other insects (fire), and the lobster (water).

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