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| Keywords: Venus and Amor, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg thumb 80px Lais of Corinth The first of Holbein's mythological works this painting shows Venus the Roman goddess of love with Amor Cupid clutching love's arrow The work entered the Amerbach collection in 1578 where the inventory records that it depicts a member of the Offenburg family The model the same used for Holbein's Darmstadt Madonna and for his Lais of Corinth has been identified with Magdalena Offenburg who may have been Holbein's mistress Holbein's Lais right was painted a year or two after Venus and Amor and in effect acts as a companion piece though Holbein does not appear to have originally planned the second painting In the later portrait the sitter is portrayed as a courtesan who takes money in return for her affections; according to some scholars it may therefore contain a coded message by Holbein about his relationship with Magdalena Art historian Peter Claussen however dismisses this interpretation as pure nonsense Both paintings employ the same colours and depict the same costumes and drapery Holbein adopts the style of Leonardo and the Lombard muralists whose work he may have studied during a visit to Italy He uses Leonardo's sfumato smoky technique to smooth the contours of the faces and limbs as well as the device of the parapet to set the subject back from the viewer References Buck pp 44 “43; Derek Wilson Hans Holbein Portrait of an Unknown Man London Pimlico 2006 ISBN 1844139182 pp 112 “13; Peter Claussen Holbein's Career between City and Court in Müller Kemperdick Ainsworth et al Hans Holbein The Basel Years 1515 “1532 Munich Prestel 2006 ISBN 9783791360522 p 47 <br/> Stephanie Buck Hans Holbein Cologne Könemann 1999 ISBN 3829025831 Creator Hans Holbein d J Uploaded by qp10qp circa 1524 /1525 80px PD-old-100 Renaissance paintings of Venus Paintings by Hans Holbein der Jüngere venus Sfumato Paintings of Venus and Cupid | ||||
