Venus Consoling Love By Francois Boucher

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The love of A Mother There are many beautiful and innovative works of art from the eighteenth- century. However, the “Venus Consoling Love” a painting of the Rocco style by Francois Boucher is quite relative and stood out to me because I believe it depicts the story of Venus the goddess of love and her beautiful winged children. This speaks to my life because I am a mother with three children. You can clearly see how Venus is disciplining Cupid by disarming him of his arrows, while the other two winged creatures are looking rather delighted by this. Cupid was always misbehaving. Cupid was mettlesome, carefree, and loved using his arrows, often in a troublesome and sometimes damaging ways. This portrait speaks to me so much because it reminds

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