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The Death of Adonis. Italian marble sculpture, close-up #223099682
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The Death of Adonis is a 1700 - 1710 marble sculpture by Giuseppe Mazzuoli, now in the Hermitage Museum. The tale of the death of Adonis comes from Ovid`s Metamorphoses and tells of the handsome youth, beloved of the goddess Venus, who died whilst out hunting boar. It entered in the Hermitage in 1923; formerly in the Musin-Pushkin collection. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
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