Venus with Cupid

Girolamo di Benvenuto created this mythological painting around 1500, now in the Denver Art Museum. The work reflects the artistic production of the High Renaissance period, when workshops across Europe produced paintings for churches, courts, and private collectors. This work falls in the decades immediately around 1500, when Renaissance ideals of harmony and classical order were being synthesised across Europe.

The painting demonstrates the techniques and compositional approach characteristic of High Renaissance painting, with careful attention to the subject matter and the visual conventions of the period.