Castello del Buonconsiglio monumenti e collezioni provinciali

Lunette: Venus and Cupid, Music

Venus and Cupid are portrayed in the, unfortunately damaged, first lunette to the left, in a figurative style often used in 16th century Venetian painting The next lunette is dedicated to music with two men, one is playing a flute, sitting outdoors with a woman; music is closely tied to the Eros as a means of seduction for sensual love. The same theme is expressed with concerts in another two lunettes: in the first, on the Loggia’s main wall, a woman plays the lute between two suitors who both gaze passionately at her; in the second one, near the stairs, a young dreamer is closely surrounded by three flute-playing young women; the one on the left offers him a fruit, probably a pear, interpretable as a metaphor for an erotic invitation.

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