Adonis and Venus - Bertini
SIZE INFORMATION
Prints: Size listed always refers to the paper size, inclusive of any white border shown.
Frames: Size listed always refers to the paper size, inclusive of any white border shown. As the width of the frame is approximately 2cm, a framed print will be slightly wider/taller than the given size.
Display images = ISO (A-size). Artwork may be adjusted slightly for non-ISO sizes.
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A print of Bertini's Adonis and Venus — a 19th century Italian reproductive engraving treating one of the classic tragic loves of Greco-Roman mythology, the goddess of love and the beautiful mortal hunter who dies in her arms.
The story, given its fullest telling in Ovid's Metamorphoses, is one of love and early death. Venus falls for Adonis, a hunter of extraordinary beauty; she warns him against the chase of strong game; he goes out anyway, is gored by a wild boar — sent, in some versions, by a jealous Mars — and dies as she arrives. From his blood springs the anemone flower. The subject was painted by Titian, by Rubens, by Poussin; Shakespeare turned it into a narrative poem; it was one of the reliable mythological subjects of European art from the Renaissance through the 19th century.
Reproductive engraving — line-engraved plates after celebrated paintings and sculptures — was the 19th century's primary way of disseminating great art to households that would never see the original.
- Museum-grade Giclée print
Museum-grade Giclée printing: The gold standard for gallery art prints.
- Weight: 200 g/m2
- Material: 100% FSC® certified paper
- Finish: Matte, natural white
- Inks: Premium archival, water-based
Size always refers to paper size (including any white border shown; excluding frame width).
Free framing service: Expertly assembled in a dust-free environment, arriving ready-to-hang.
- 2cm wide, 2.2cm deep
- Material: Lightweight FSC® certified ash wood
- Finish: Smooth satin laminate, or uncoated wood grain (Natural)
- Glaze: Shatterproof Perspex
Size always refers to paper size (including any white border shown; excluding frame width).
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