● On view now — 101A Prints & Drawings
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · verified August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Raimondi’s fascination with ancient marbles is evident in this allegory of love triumphant over war. He used the Belvedere Torso , a fragment of an ancient marble statue, as his model for the figure of Mars. The dynamic, twisting musculature of the broken sculpture inspired many artists who studied its form and incorporated it into new compositions. Here Mars sits disarmed while Venus and Cupid carry a torch of victory, their carefully modeled, static poses reminiscent of sculptures.
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Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Galba, from The Twelve Caes
Hercules, grasping Antaeus at the waist with both arms and l
The Massacre of the Innocents (Without the Fir Tree)
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Nero, from The Twelve Caesa
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Vespasian, from The Twelve 
Two Fauns Carrying a Child
Massacre of the Innocents (With the Fir Tree)
Apollo on Parnassus
Marcantonio Raimondi — Mars seated at the left, his left han
Marcantonio Raimondi — Mars seated at the left, his left han
Marcantonio Raimondi — Thisbe finding Pyramus laying on the 
Lucas van Leyden — Fall of Man
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) — Hercules at the Crossro
Lucas van Leyden — Sin of Adam and Eve
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) — Adam and Eve
Jan (Johannes) Wierix|Albrecht Dürer — Adam and Eve
Marcantonio Raimondi — Satyr and Nymph
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) — Adam and Eve
Hieronymus Hopfer (German) — Judgment of Paris
Albrecht Dürer — Adam and Eve