Venus and her son Cupid kiss in a cold, crowded foreground, watched by a boy about to throw roses, usually read as Folly, and by bald Father Time, who sweeps back a blue curtain. Probably the Bronzino that Vasari says was sent to Francis I of France, it mixes eroticism with warnings about love. What every figure means is still disputed.
Look closer
Folly's right foot is pierced by a thorn, yet he keeps smiling. Venus holds the golden apple she won at the Judgement of Paris.
Looks like this
Compared by a vision model
