"Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus", or "Sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus", is a quotation from the Roman comedian Terence that became a proverb in the Early Modern period. Its simplest level of me
Hendrick Goltzius, 1600–03, the Philadelphia "pen painting"
Mikrokosmos emblem book, 1579: "Venus is left shivering in front of a makeshift fire while Bacchus and Ceres wander away".
Venus Frigida, Rubens 1615, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp. Venus and Cupid are freezing, as a satyr arrives with a fruit bowl
Abraham Bloemaert, early 17th century
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In ancient Roman religion, Ceres was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility, and motherly relationships. She was originally the central deity in Rome's so-called plebeian or Aventine Triad,
Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus
…Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus", (Latin, 'Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus would freeze') or "Sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus", is a quotation from the Roman comedian Terence (c. 195/185 – c. 159 BC) that…
Seated Ceres from Emerita Augusta, present-day Mérida, Spain (National Museum of Roman Art, 1st century AD)
Funerary statue of an unknown woman, depicted as Ceres holding wheat. Mid 3rd century AD. (Louvre)
During her long, torch-lit search for her daughter, Proserpina, Ceres drinks water given her by Hecuba, and is mocked by the boy, Askalabos, for spilling some of it. She will transform him into a lowly "star-lizard' or newt (Latin; stellio) as punishment. The episode is in Ovid's, Metamorphoses V, lines 449-450. Oil-paint on copper, by Adam Elsheimer and workshop, copy circa 1605, held by the Museo Nacional del Prado. From an original in the collection of Alfred and Isabel Bader
Ceres holding a bundle of cereal grains, a late 18th century work by Dominik Auliczek of the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory