Adonis' blood changed into an anemone or a rose: when Adonis is slain by a boar, Venus changes his blood into an anemone or a rose (Ovid, Metamorphoses X 735)

De dood van Adonis

Giovanni-Martino dei Boni (vermeld op object), 1800

De metamorfose van Adonis

Antonio Tempesta, 1606

De metamorfose van Adonis

Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638