Venus and Cupid study   

Venus and Cupid (1516)

by:   Romano      category: Drawing   
related artifacts: Stufetta central framed fresco 5

note:  Venus and Cupid scene included on south wall of Cardinal Bibbiena's stuffetta (above the Logge below). Clayton (1999) notes letter exchanged between Bembo and Bibbiena that "establish that the sequence of small frescoes was designed by Raphael to Bibbiena's specifications, the theme of Venus complementing a small antique statue of the goddess that was intended to fill a niche in the stufetta (but was never installed" (118). https://www.rct.uk/collection/912757/venus-and-cupid