Venus Pricked by the Thorns of a Rose Bush; Cupid Asleep in the Foreground

Venus Pricked by the Thorns of a Rose Bush; Cupid Asleep in the Foreground

Giorgio Ghisi, After Luca Penni

1556 Print

62.635.607

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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