"Cupid Complaining to Venus" by Lucas Cranach the Elder

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Lucas Cranach the Elder, the German Renaissance painter, printer, and engraver, created multiple paintings of Venus and Cupid, including Cupid Complaining to Venus at the National Gallery in London. It is a work that has enthralled generations of art historians, but why? Ben Street tells us more about the Greek poem on which this tale of morality is based.

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