Use in Popular Culture
- Terry Gilliam from British comedy group Monty Python famously used Cupid's right foot from Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time for crushing down the titles on Monty Python's Flying Circus.
- American photographer David LaChapelle created his own version of the painting Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time.
- Francis Cornish, the protagonist of Robertson Davies' novel What's Bred in the Bone, was obsessed with the meaning of Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time.
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