Tag: Cythera

01 Painting, Olympian deities, Wilhelm Kray’s Eros ferrying lovers to Cythera, with footnotes # 50

Jan 22, 2025

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Sold for GBP 6,875 in Jan 2008 In Greek mythology, Eros is the god of lust and love. In the present work, lovers are being taken to Cythera, the celestial island of Aphrodite. Wilhelm Kray ( December 29, 1828 in Berlin – July 29, 1889 in Munich ) was a German portrait , genre and landscape painter…