# Venus Mourning the Death of Adonis [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FURINI, Francesco]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 233 x 190 cm ## Commentary Based in part on Ovid's Metamorphoses, this masterpiece is one of the works that translated into visual terms Giovan Battista Marino's poem "L'Adone" \(Adonis\), and was painted very soon after the poem's publication in Paris in 1623. Several inspirational sources and quotations can be observed in this canvas, e.g. the Hellenistic <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/b/bandinel/1/laocoon.html'\)" href="/html/b/bandinel/1/laocoon.html">Laocoön group</a> \(at the left of the painting\) and <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/raphael/3umbtrip/37entom.html'\)" href="/html/r/raphael/3umbtrip/37entom.html">Raphael's Entombment</a> \(in reverse, at right\), <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/caravagg/07/37depos.html'\)" href="/html/c/caravagg/07/37depos.html">Caravaggio's Entombment.</a> ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Peace]() - [General view of the Sala Terreno]() - [Hylas and the Nymphs]() - [Judith and Holofernes]() - [Lot and his Daughters]() - [Painting and Poetry]() - [Samson and Delilah]() - [St John the Evangelist]() - [The Birth of Rachel]() - [The Three Graces]() - [Venus Mourning the Death of Adonis \(detail\)]() - [View of the north wall]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()