Temptation

Temptation
Baffling, cunning and confusing addictive thinking ruins lives.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Debauchery in Classical Art?





Botticelli. The canvas, called Venus and Mars, depicts the titular deities lounging in a meadow. 
Venus looks forward while Mars lies beside her, apparently asleep.... Or is he?

Botticelli painted a fruit in the bottom right-hand corner of his canvas that looks a lot like daturastramonium, a plant that's also known as "poor man's acid."  In short: Mars might be stoned.