The Death of Adonis (Rubens)

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The Death of Adonis (c. 1614) by Rubens

The Death of Adonis is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, executed c. 1614, now in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. It shows the dead Adonis being mourned by Venus, Cupid and the Three Graces.[1]

The painting was donated to the Israel Museum by Saul P. Steinberg.

It represents the mythological episode of the death of the god Adonis by the fangs of a wild boar sent by Artemis. It is one of the most represented moments in the history of art, for example by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo,[2] Poussin or Ribera.[3]

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