PIERO DI COSIMO
(b. 1462, Firenze, d. 1521, Firenze)

Venus, Mars, and Cupid (detail)

1490
Poplar panel
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Making love, not war, has exhausted Mars. He is literally disarmed as well as stripped by and for passion as putti toy with his armour in the background.




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