3493048 Venus and Cupid, c.1525-7 (oil on wood) by Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553); 12.1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: A scene from the poem Cupid Stealing Honey by the classical Greek poet Theocritus which tells the story of how Cupid complains to his mother, Venus (the goddess of love), of bees stinging him because he has stolen their hive. He wonders that creatures so small can inflict so much pain. Venus laughs and tells him that their stings can be compared to the wounds that he himself inflicts on all those hit by his arrows. ).