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fragment of a a group of Venus and Amor; formerly identified as 'Platonic love' because Amor stood on a book inscribed 'Opera Platonis', which was revealed as an addition when the painting was cleaned in 1980

Artist or creator

Date

1530 (circa)

Location

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art (inv. 738 (John G. Johnson Collection))

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology, Oxford 1939

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Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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