3492926 Omnia Vincit Amor, or The Power of Love in the Three Elements, 1809 (oil on canvas) by West, Benjamin (1738-1820); 178.8 x 204.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Love conquers all. Venus, goddess of love, is shown at the left with doves and with her son, Amor, armed with bow and arrows. Hymen, god of marriage, holds a flaming torch in one hand and in the other the leash of an eagle symbolizing all the creatures living in the element Air. A hippocampus represents those of the Water, and a lion those on Earth. The fourth element, Fire, is implicit in the goddess herself, in the winged Amores, or little Loves, and most particularly in Hymen??? flaming torch. ).