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Mars and Venus with Cupid and a Dog
Mars and Venus with Cupid and a Dog is a oil painting by Paolo Veronese. It was painted around 1580 and is in the collection of the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. Venus is portrayed sitting on Mars' knee, and she wears a fur. At their feet is Cupid and a lapdog.
and received religious veneration jointly with Hercules. An inscription from Cártama in Roman Spain records statues of Mars and Cupid among the public works of a wealthy female priest "(sacerdos perpetua)", and another list of benefactions by a procurator of Baetica includes statues of Venus and Cupid.
Cupid became more common in Roman art from the time of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. After the Battle of Actium, when Antony and Cleopatra were defeated, Cupid transferring the weapons of Mars to his mother Venus became a motif of