The myth of Venus and Adonis has reached its last act here. Adonis, the beautiful young man loved by Venus, was fatally wounded by a wild boar during a hunting trip. The goddess bursts onto the scene with a real leap, which is not simply a scenic gimmick but is linked to the narrative. Ovid, in fact, in the 10th book of the Metamorphoses, narrates that Venus is on her chariot pulled by swans, returning to Cyprus, when from a distance he hears the moans of dying Adonis and rushes down from heaven. Behind Adonis we see a hunting dog, a broken trunk and a dusky landscape. The young man's body stands out against the red of the drapery, a probable allusion to the color of the anemone, the flower into which his blood will be transformed. The episode is reinterpreted in a Christological key, as had already happened in the literary sphere with the poem Adonis (1623) by Giovan Battista Marino. The wound of Adonis is on the side, not on the groin, as in Ovid's poem, and the way in which Venus raises her arms, as a sign of desperation, has been related to the iconography of the Magdalene.