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Venus and Adonis
Creator: Rubens, Peter Paul, Sir, 1577-1640
Title: Venus and Adonis
Date: ca. 1610-1611
Date destroyed or lost: 1945
Nationality: Flemish
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object dimensions: 112.5 x 96 cm
Former repository: Gemäldegalerie (Berlin, Germany)
Former inventory number: Inv Nr. 763 B
Circumstances of destruction or loss: One of around 417 works of art from the Kaiser Friedrich Museum deposited in the Friedrichshain flak tower, or Flakturm, for safekeeping. The painting is presumed to have been destroyed when the tower was burned in May of 1945.
Notes: For more information, see: Jaffe, Michael. Rubens: catalogo completo. Milano: Rizzoli, 1989.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war
Art treasures in war
Goddesses, Greek
Gods, Greek
Swans
Dogs
Adonis (Greek deity)
Venus (Roman deity)
Photo description: Unlabeled clipping
Source: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library Photo Archive, 225 South Street, Williamstown MA, 01267
Type: Painting
Collection: Lost Art
Venus and Adonis
Creator: Rubens, Peter Paul, Sir, 1577-1640
Title: Venus and Adonis
Date: ca. 1610-1611
Date destroyed or lost: 1945
Nationality: Flemish
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object dimensions: 112.5 x 96 cm
Former repository: Gemäldegalerie (Berlin, Germany)
Former inventory number: Inv Nr. 763 B
Circumstances of destruction or loss: One of around 417 works of art from the Kaiser Friedrich Museum deposited in the Friedrichshain flak tower, or Flakturm, for safekeeping. The painting is presumed to have been destroyed when the tower was burned in May of 1945.
Notes: For more information, see: Jaffe, Michael. Rubens: catalogo completo. Milano: Rizzoli, 1989.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war
Art treasures in war
Goddesses, Greek
Gods, Greek
Swans
Dogs
Adonis (Greek deity)
Venus (Roman deity)
Photo description: Unlabeled clipping
Source: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library Photo Archive, 225 South Street, Williamstown MA, 01267
Type: Painting
Collection: Lost Art