# Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POELENBURGH, Cornelis van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on wood, 33 x 50 cm ## Commentary Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus c. 1630 Oil on wood, 33 x 50 cm Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna This group of gods on the clouds illustrates a frequently depicted sentence by Terence: Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus - Without Ceres \(bread\) and Bacchus \(wine\) Venus freezes. In the painting there is an unusual reversal of distances between sky and earth, other examples of which can be found in <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/reni/1/aurora.html'\)" HREF="/html/r/reni/1/aurora.html">Guido Reni's</A> and Giovanni <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/l/lanfranc/1/eremiti1.html'\)" HREF="/html/l/lanfranc/1/eremiti1.html">Lanfranco's paintings</A> which Poelenburgh would have seen in Rome. ## Related artworks - [Amaryllis Giving Myrtill the Price]() - [Annunciation]() - [Capriccio View of Rome with the Martyrdom of St Lawrence]() - [Children of Frederick V Prince Elector of Pfalz and King of Bohemia]() - [Figures beneath the Arches of a Classical Ruin]() - [Figures Dancing near Ruin]() - [Italianate Landscape with Dancing Figures]() - [Landscape with Diana and Callisto]() - [Landscape with Nymphs near a Grotto]() - [Landscape with Nymphs]() - [Mercury and Herse]() - [Nymph and Shepherd in Landscape]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()