Cranach the Elder, Cupid complaining to Venus

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Cranach the Elder, Cupid complaining to Venus발음듣기

(piano music) Man: Pleasure often comes with a cost, with a little pain.발음듣기

Lucas Cranach the elder reminds us of us of that in his painting, Cupid Complaining to Venus.발음듣기

Woman: We see Cupid who has reached for a honeycomb only to be stung by a whole set of bees.발음듣기

He's looking up at Venus his mother in pain as though he's pleading for her sympathy.발음듣기

Man: She doesn't seem to be paying attention to him at all however.발음듣기

Instead, she is looking out at us as a sultry seducer.발음듣기

Woman: There is no denying the eroticism of this painting, of her body, of her look toward us, the way that she positions her legs between that branch, the way that she reaches up toward the apples on the tree, reminding us of Eve and the Garden of Eden.발음듣기

Man: So this is really a bit of a composite.발음듣기

You have on the one hand this reference back to antiquity.발음듣기

You have Venus the goddess of love and beauty.발음듣기

You have her son Cupid. These are all classical references.발음듣기

In fact, in the top you have a translation from the Latin, which actually speaks to the relationship between pain and pleasure, yet we also have this very dramatic image with this dark forest on the left and fashions actually that relate to the Saxon court.발음듣기

Woman: Cranach was court painter to the electors, the rulers of Saxony.발음듣기

Man: Who actually commissioned this painting.발음듣기

Woman: And so the woman here, Venus, although she's the pagan goddess of love as you said, is wearing the headdress and necklaces of an Aristocratic woman at the court in Saxony.발음듣기

Man: It's a little bit vampy to have this nude woman wear both jewelry and that wild headdress.발음듣기

Woman: And be utterly nude otherwise.발음듣기

Man: Yeah it is.발음듣기

She is painted so seductively that he really is challenging us with the moral issues of our lust.발음듣기

Woman: Of whether the pleasure is worth the pain.발음듣기

Man: Exactly.발음듣기

Woman: So on the left we have a German forest with stag and a doe and on the right a very deep landscape with a lovely reflection in the river.발음듣기

Man: You can see in that water two swans and the reflection of a house with a red roof.발음듣기

Beyond that is wonderfully fanciful cliffs and there is a castle up at the top.발음듣기

There is a house that is cantilevered over on the right side.발음듣기

Woman: And the castle on the river itself.발음듣기

Man: With the beautiful reflection in that still water.발음듣기

Woman: This is an Aristocratic image.발음듣기

This is an image of castles on rivers.발음듣기

It feels German to me in so many ways.발음듣기

The forest, the rivers, the castles.발음듣기

Man: And yet in the foreground you have this wonderful classicized literary reference.발음듣기

And it's not only sexual but it's also really playful.발음듣기

Let's not forget about the complaining infant. (piano music).발음듣기

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