Works of Art (40)
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Apollo Slays the Python and Quarrels with Cupid: From the series The Story of Apollo and Daphne, mid-16th century, Master of the Die, after Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (Italian, Sienese), Engraving (49.97.323) |
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Box with Aristotle and Phyllis, 14th century, French; Made in Paris ca. 1310-30, Ivory (1988.1.6) |
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Cupid with the Arms of Mars, ca. 1547–62, Adamo Scultori (Italian, Mantuan), Engraving (49.97.479) |
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Curiosity, ca. 1660,
Gerard ter Borch (Dutch),
Oil on canvas (49.7.38) |
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Diana and Cupid, 1761, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, Roman), Oil on canvas (1982.438) |
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Feast of the Gods at the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, 1587, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), after Bartholomeus Spranger (Netherlandish), Engraving, printed from three plates on three attached sheets; second state of four (2000.113) |
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Interior with a Young Couple, early 1660s,
Pieter de Hooch (Dutch),
Oil on canvas (14.40.613) |
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Lamenting the Death of Adonis, mid-16th century, After Luca Cambiaso (Italian), Woodcut (17.37.33) |
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Landscape with Perseus and Andromeda: From the "Mythological Room" of the Imperial Villa at Boscotrecase, last decade of 1st century B.C.; Augustan, Roman, Wall painting; Fresco (20.192.16) |
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Lovers, ca. 1525–30, Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma), Etching, first state; sheet, trimmed to platemark (26.70.3 [102]) |
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Mantel clock, ca. 1780–90,
French (Paris),
Gilt bronze, enamel, and marble (17.190.2126)
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Mars and Venus United by Love, Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (Italian, Venetian), Oil on canvas (10.189) |
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Mirror Back with Falconing Party, 1350–1375, French; Possibly made in Paris, Elephant ivory (41.100.160) |
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Musidora, 1813–35, Thomas Sully (American), Oil on wood (21.48) |
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Omnia vincit Amor, 1599, Agostino Carracci (Italian, Bolognese) (17.3.1853) |
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Pen box, late 17th–early 18th century,
India, possibly Deccan or Kashmir,
Lacquered papier-mâché with gold leaf (2002.416a,b) |
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Plaster model for Cupid and Psyche, 18th century (1794), Antonio Canova (Italian), Rome, Italy, Plaster (05.46) |
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Psiche Curieuse, mid-1770s, Giovanni David (Italian), Etching and aquatint (1976.629) |
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Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Peter Paul (born 1637), probably late 1630s, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish), Oil on wood (1981.238) |
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Sentimental Conversation, 1660s,
Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam (Dutch),
Oil on wood (32.100.19) |
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Terracotta Figure of Isis-Aphrodite, Roman period, 2nd–3rd century,
Egyptian,
Alluvial clay; brown, black, red, and pink paint on white englobe (1991.76) |
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Textile Tent Divider, 19th–20th century, Sudan; Beja peoples, Cotton, leather, beads, cowrie shells, palm leaf (1996.455) |
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The Accommodations of Desire, 1929, Salvador Dali (Spanish), Oil and cut-and-pasted printed paper on cardboard (1999.363.16) |
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The Lovesick Maiden, ca. 1660,
Jan Havicksz. Steen (Dutch),
Oil on canvas (46.13.2)
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The Power of Cupid (Jupiter Disarmed), ca. 1530–50, Master of the Die (active Rome), after Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (Italian, Sienese), Engraving (49.97.328) |
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The Swing, 1777–79, Hubert Robert (French), Oil on canvas (17.190.27) |
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The Toilet of Venus, 1751, François Boucher (French), Oil on canvas (20.155.9) |
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The Triumph of Love, ca. 1485–90, Francesco Rosselli (Italian, Florentine), Engraving (25.2.33) |
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Two Lovers, 1630; Safavid, Riza cAbbasi (ca. 1565–1635), Isfahan, Iran, Tempera and gilt paint on paper (50.164) |
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Unicorn in Captivity, ca. 1495–1505, South Netherlandish, Wool warp, wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts (37.80.6) |
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Venus and Adonis, ca. 1556–57, Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, Mantuan), after Teodoro Ghisi (Italian, Mantuan), Engraving (53.522.28) |
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Venus and Adonis, mid- or late 1630s, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish), Oil on canvas (37.162) |
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Venus and the Lute Player, ca. 1565–70, Titian and Workshop (Italian, Venetian), Oil on canvas (36.29) |
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Venus Whipping Cupid with Roses, early 17th century, Giovanni Luigi Valesio (Italian), Engraving (17.50.16[188]) |
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Vulcan at His Forge with Mars and Venus, 1543, Enea Vico (Italian), after Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma), Engraving (49.97.351) |
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Young Man and Woman in an Inn ("Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart"), 1623,
Frans Hals (Dutch),
Oil on canvas (14.40.602)
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Young Woman with a Pink, ca. 1485–90,
Attributed to Hans Memling (Netherlandish),
Oil on wood (49.7.23) |
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Poliphilo's Dream about the Strife of Love), Author: Francesco Colonna, Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1499, Woodcut illustrations with printed text; bound volume (23.73.1) |
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Storia di due amanti (Tale of Two Lovers): Title page (signature a1),
Author: Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II),
Florence: Pacini, [ca. 1495],
Printed book with woodcut illustrations (25.30.17) |
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Thematic Essays (15)
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