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                            Introduction
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Venus and Adonis may refer to:


                           Literary works
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*"Venus and Adonis", a story from Book X of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
*'Venus and Adonis' (Shakespeare poem)
*'Venus and Adonis' (Constable poem), a poem by Henry Constable


                               Operas
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*'Venus and Adonis' (opera), an opera by John Blow
*'Vénus et Adonis', an opera by Henry Desmarest
*'Venus y Adonis', a pastoral opera by José de Nebra
*'Venus und Adonis', an opera by Hans Werner Henze


                             Paintings
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* 'Venus and Adonis' (Titian), of which there are versions from the
1520s onward
* 'Venus and Adonis' (Veronese, Augsburg), 1562
* 'Venus and Adonis' (Veronese, Madrid), 1580
* 'Venus and Adonis' (Poussin), c. 1626
* 'Venus and Adonis' (Rubens, 1614)
* 'Venus and Adonis' (Rubens, 1635)
* 'Venus and Adonis' (Phillips), an 1808 work by Thomas Phillips


                              See also
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* Adonis
* 'The Death of Adonis' (Rubens)
* Venus (mythology)
* 'Venus, Adonis and Cupid', by Annibale Carracci, c. 1595


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