Cupid Complains to Venus about a Bee Sting

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The motif is taken from a poem by Anacreon describing how Cupid one day is stung by a bee as he makes to pick a rose, upon which he runs home crying to his mother for comfort. Meanwhile, she merely asks, “If the bee sting hurts you so much, how much do you think those people suffer who are struck by your arrow?”

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Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsens Museum opened on 18 September 1848 and was the first public museum building in Denmark. The characteristic museum building was built to exhibit the extensive life’s work of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) and today still looks more or less as it did when it opened over 150 years ago. Thorvaldsens Museum also contains Thorvaldsen's drawings and sketches for sculptures and reliefs. In addition Thorvaldsen was a passionate collector, so the museum also exhibits his extensive collections of paintings from his own time and collections of artworks and objects from Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquity. The museum also shows changing exhibitions that go into greater depth with aspects of the permanent collections, including contemporary art.

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