Iconography
	GODS & MYTHS
	Venus
	→ With Amor → With other figures → Graces or nymphs
	→ Allegories → Miscellaneous
	→ With other figures → Graces or Nymphs
	Amor
	→ Allegories → Eros and Anteros (requited love) → Miscellaneous
	Graces
	→ With other figures → Venus and Amor
	SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY
	Emblems
	→ Cycles (Emblem Books) → Bocchi, Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere, 1555

	Further details
	Book III, Symbol LXXX: Hic Anteros quid est nisi verum esse Amorem mutuum; Venus entrusts Amor to the Graces, but he does not grow; following the counsel of the Oracle she then begets Anteros, gives him likewise to the Graces, and both grow up happily together
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Bonasone, Giulio (born c1510, died after 1576)
	DATE
	1555
	LOCATION
	London, Warburg Institute
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Bocchi, Achille → Symbolicarum quaestionum, de universo genere, quas serio ludebat, libri quinque, Bologna, 1574, p. 170

	Notes on photograph
	COLLECTION
	Bartsch (XV.163.257)

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	library-record of illustrated text
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	complete digital copy of illustrated text (external website)

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