High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venus and Adonis is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance artist Titian, executed around 1560. It is currently housed in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome. It is one of the numerous version of the same subject. According to the German artist Friedrich Muller, the painting was commissioned by Emperor Charles V and housed in Prague. Later, King Gustavus II Adolf of Sweden sent it to Stockholm; when the Swedish queen Christina of Sweden abdicated, she took the painting with her to Rome (1654). After her death, it was inherited by Cardinal Decio Azzolino; later it was acquired by the French regent Philippe II of Orleans and by the Russian emperor Paul I.

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