DÜRER, Albrecht: Cupid the Honey Thief
Winged Cupid crouches beside a beehive, caught mid-theft while bees swarm around him in intricate detail. Dürer's 1514 engraving visualizes a classical allegory: love's sweetness demands pain, blending Renaissance humanism with Northern precision in line and form.
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