File:Fresco from the Golden House of Nero, found in Rome in 1668, Ashmolean Museum (8401788678).jpg
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | fresco | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fresco from the Golden House of Nero, found in Rome in 1668, Ashmolean Museum, Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
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| current | 15:10, 15 December 2013 | | 2,977 × 2,735 (6.17 MB) | File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske) | Transferred from Flickr by User:Marcus Cyron |
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