Click-to-enlarge image available from Mr. Melcher’s blog entry.Venus and Adonis (her Wikipedia page, his Wikipedia page) has a short description in its current-location page (the source of the different coloration, click-to-enlarge title image and humongous high-resolution image). Another description is available here along with its own different coloration, click-to-enlarge image; but there are many different colorations, because, among other things, the artist painted several different paintings with this title.This version is the first of at least 7. Its Google translated Italian Wikipedia page points to the Italian Wikipedia pages (should automatically translate if you click one from the other) for the other 6, 5 of which are housed here, here, here (color image), here, and here. The one (that was?) on loan to Oxford isn’t among this artist’s paintings online. The artist’s Wikipedia page and collection (many more under Subcategories at each level).Second of the 6 works by this artist, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here.
margueritem over 11 years ago
Just a little…
BE THIS GUY over 11 years ago
“But I thought we were going to be just friends with benefits.”
bluskies over 11 years ago
That one Dog looks like he’s fixin’ to start sniffin’ Venus’s nether region.
el8 over 11 years ago
does this campstool make my butt look fat?
pcolli over 11 years ago
Look, woman; if I don’t go hunting, we don’t eat and you don’t get that fur coat.
Mostly Water Premium Member over 11 years ago
Maybe she’s just checking out his armpit.
mabrndt Premium Member over 11 years ago
Click-to-enlarge image available from Mr. Melcher’s blog entry.Venus and Adonis (her Wikipedia page, his Wikipedia page) has a short description in its current-location page (the source of the different coloration, click-to-enlarge title image and humongous high-resolution image). Another description is available here along with its own different coloration, click-to-enlarge image; but there are many different colorations, because, among other things, the artist painted several different paintings with this title.This version is the first of at least 7. Its Google translated Italian Wikipedia page points to the Italian Wikipedia pages (should automatically translate if you click one from the other) for the other 6, 5 of which are housed here, here, here (color image), here, and here. The one (that was?) on loan to Oxford isn’t among this artist’s paintings online. The artist’s Wikipedia page and collection (many more under Subcategories at each level).Second of the 6 works by this artist, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here.
scrabblefiend over 11 years ago
Like in the old cowboy movies, the hero who, after saving the town, and is leaving, she begs, “Take me with you, out of this lonesome town.”
Linguist over 11 years ago
" ‘Donny don’t leave me with that drunken Cupid. You know how crazy he gets when he wakes up. No telling who he’ll shoot. "
J Short over 11 years ago
Breast feeding; it’s not just for women anymore.
underwriter over 11 years ago
If I remember my mythology, he should have listened; he would have lived longer.
Woody157 over 11 years ago
“I’d like to kiss you way back in the sticks…And I’d like to check you for ticks.”TICKS, by Brad Paisley
knichols1958 over 11 years ago
The original overly attached girlfriend.
mabrndt Premium Member over 11 years ago
Here is another work by this artist.