Fresco_from_the_Golden_House_of_Nero,_found_in_Rome_in_1668,_Ashmolean_Museum_(8401788678).jpg
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Summary
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painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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Description |
A woman, perhaps Lucina, goddess of childbirth, presents the goddess of love, Aphrodite (Roman Venus) with the beautiful infant Adonis. Aphrodite holds the myrrh tree from which Adonis was born. Aphrodite turned Adonis's mother Myrrha into a tree to save her own father, King Theias.
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Date | 12 June 2011, 15:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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fresco
medium QS:P186,Q25631150
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institution QS:P195,Q636400
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Source/Photographer |
Fresco from the Golden House of Nero, found in Rome in 1668, Ashmolean Museum , Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
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Camera location | 51° 45′ 22.31″ N, 1° 15′ 34.16″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 51.756198; -1.259490 |
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