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Allegory of Lust
Agnolo Bronzino
1540-1550
Oil on panel, 146.5 x 116.8 cm
London, National Gallery
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| | | Named also 'Allegory with Venus and Cupid' or 'Venus, Cupid and Time '.
This painting was commissioned by Cosimo I de’ Medici as a gift for King Francis I of France. It is full of homoerotic allusions, such as chimera or the position or Cupid. Chimera, a monster with human head, lion's body and dragon's tail, was a symbol of homosexuality (‘as unnatural-sexuality’) in Bronzino's time.
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