File:Peter Paul Rubens – Venus, Cupid, Bacchus and Ceres – WGA20283.jpg

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Peter Paul Rubens: Sine Baccho et Cerere friget Venus

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Alternative names	Rubens, Pierre Paul Rubens, Pieter Paul Rubens, Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Description	Flemish painter, sculptor, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death	28 June 1577	30 May 1640
Location of birth/death	Siegen	Antwerp
Work period	16^th century date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Work location	Antwerp (1589-1600), Mantua (9 May 1600-1608), Spain (1603), Antwerp (1608-1640), Netherlands (1612), Paris (23 May 1623-29 June 1623, 4 February 1625-9 June 1625), Calais (November 1626), Paris (December 1626), City of Brussels (1627), Netherlands (10 July 1627-6 August 1627), Spain (26 August 1628-29 April 1629), London (18 May 1629-23 March 1630), City of Brussels (1631), Netherlands (November 1631), Affligem (September 1634)
Authority file	: Q5599 VIAF: 56647196 ISNI: 0000000121341267 ULAN: 500002921 LCCN: n79055561 NLA: 36442606 WorldCat

Title

Venus, Cupid, Bacchus and Ceres (Sine Baccho et Cerere friget Venus)

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mythological painting

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Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus

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Date

between 1612 and 1613

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 141 cm (55.5 in)

; width: 200 cm (78.7 in)

Collection

Schloss Wilhelmshöhe

	Location	Kassel , Germany
	Coordinates	51° 18′ 54″ N, 9° 24′ 58″ E
	Established	1786
	Authority file	: Q687186 VIAF: 146436640 LCCN: no2013098375 GND: 4196059-2 WorldCat

Hessen Kassel Heritage

	Native name	Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
	Location	Kassel, Germany
	Coordinates	51° 18′ 39.87″ N, 9° 24′ 11.83″ E
	Established	2006 (under this name)
	Website	www.museum-kassel.de
	Authority file	: Q1954840 VIAF: 144710068 ISNI: 0000000123368340 LCCN: nr2006032505 GND: 1295786133 SUDOC: 119569191 WorldCat

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85 (Hessen Kassel Heritage)

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RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel

(b. 1577, Siegen, d. 1640, Antwerpen)

Venus, Cupid, Baccchus and Ceres 1612-13 Oil on canvas, 141 x 200 cm Staatliche Museen, Kassel

Venus and her son Cupid are being offered food and wine by Ceres, goddess of the fruits of the field, and Bacchus, god of wine. The subject comes from a line by the Roman comic poet Terence (d. 159 BC) which frequently figures in the emblem literature that developed from the mid-16th century: 'Sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus' - without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus would freeze. Love is impossible without food and drink. Rather than depicting a boisterous feast, Rubens has opted for a rather restrained scene that must be read as a plea for moderation in pleasure.

Rubens produced this painting a few years after his eight-year stay in Italy, where he was employed at the court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, and also in Rome. The knowledge of antiquity he gained then was put to use in this painting, as also in a later work on the same theme in 1614, (Royal Fine Arts Museum, Antwerp), Ceres' pose being taken from the Crouching Venus of the Hellenistic sculptor Doidalsas, dating from around 240-230 BC. Rubens certainly knew the marble copy in the Farnese collection in Rome (today in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples).

What he particularly appreciated in Hellenistic and Roman sculpture was its formal dynamism, although he saw in ancient sculpture generally a realm of flawless, ideal nature. In painting from such antique models, he says in his De Imitatione Statuarum, a treatise 'on the imitation of sculpture', the statuary has to be humanised, translated into flesh and blood. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 4 minutes):<BR><A HREF="#" onClick="w=window.open ('/music1/17_cent/gasparini_cupid.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350');w.opener=this;w.focus();return true"><B>Francesco Gasparini: The Meddlesome Cupid, aria</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE>

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Author: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Venus, Cupid, Baccchus and Ceres Time-line: 1601-1650 School: Flemish Form: painting

Type: mythological

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