id: 112106 accession number: 1930.581 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.581 updated: 2022-07-23 09:00:20.466000 Venus Wounded by a Rose's Thorn, c. 1516. Marco Dente (Italian, c. 1486-1527), after Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520), published by Antonio Salamanca (c.1500-1562). Engraving; sheet: 26.1 x 16.8 cm (10 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1930.581 title: Venus Wounded by a Rose's Thorn title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1516 creation date earliest: 1511 creation date latest: 1521 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 16th century technique: engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Engraving type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Bartsch XIV.241.321 (as Marc. Raimondi, XIV.241) Le B.II.111.18; Ottley II.261 --- CREATORS * Marco Dente (Italian, c. 1486-1527) - artist * Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520) - artist Raffaello Sanzio (Urbino, April 6, 1483-Rome, April 6, 1520), commonly known as Raphael, was one of the most admired Italian painters and architects on the High Renaissance. He was trained in his native city Urbino, a center of art and culture during the rule of the Duke Federico da Montefeltro. Around 1495, Raphael moved to Perugia and joined the master Pietro Perugino's workshop. He later sojourned to Siena, and then resided in Florence by the autumn of 1504. There, Raphael studied the works by Renaissance masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Fra Bartolomeo, and Masaccio. Raphael is best known for his paintings of Madonnas (from 1504 through 1507), and the frescoes that Pope Julio II commissioned to him in the Vatican Palace in Rome in 1514. The same year architect Donato Bramante died, and the pope appointed Raphael chief architect. Raphael's style was based on clarity of forms and harmonious compositions; after his death, his works were highly admired by both Mannerist and Baroque artists. * Antonio Salamanca (c.1500-1562) - published by --- measurements: Sheet: 26.1 x 16.8 cm (10 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.) state of the work: II/III edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(3) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620 opening date: 1997-08-03T00:00:00 Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 3-October 26, 1997). title: Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art opening date: 2017-08-26T04:00:00 Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-December 31, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 117): October 7, 2013 - January 21, 2014. --- PROVENANCE purchased from (M. Knoedler & Co., NY) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This composition alludes to The Lament for Adonis by the Greek poet Bion (active about 100 BC). In the poem, Venus, distraught by the death of her lover Adonis, wanders barefoot in the woods and is wounded by brambles. Although Bion implores Venus to “weep no longer in the thickets,” the poem does not describe the moment depicted here when she plucks a thorn from her foot, imaginatively conceived as a vehicle to present a classical female nude. The wide-eyed hare near Venus is an ancient symbol of fertility and sexual desire. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.581/1930.581_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.581/1930.581_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.581/1930.581_full.tif