Browsing 2 items in "erotic melancholy"

The goddess Venus standing on a sphere crowns the head of those fallen at her feet once they had been hit by Cupid's arrows; following the path to Vanity (Cursus Vanitatis), Blindness (Caecitas) is driving a cart of fools, pulled by Folly (Stultitia) & Lust (Voluptas), and pursued by Derision (Derisio).

Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rate rises whenever he sees her. Engraving by P. Baquoy (1759-1829) after a drawing prepared A. Desenne (1785-1827) itself based on a painting by G. de Lairesse (1640-1711).