Every Day a Painting for October 26, 2026

Venus and Adonis (1540–1565)

Titian; Italian 16th Century

Oil on Canvas. Venetian, Renaissance.

Italian Paintings of the Sixteenth Century

Venus, as if filled with foreboding about Adonis’s fate, desperately clings to her lover, while he pulls himself free of her embrace, impatient for the hunt and with his hounds straining at the leash.…

View at National Gallery of Art