Why it matters
Cupid and Venus kiss in the foreground while the putto Folly prepares to shower them with rose petals and bald Time looks on from above. Scholars still do not know for certain what the allegory means.
Did you know?
- It was painted around 1545.
- It may have been a gift for Francis I of France.
- Its ambivalence and eroticism are characteristic of the Mannerist period.
Based on the Wikipedia article Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (CC BY-SA 4.0).
