In Venus and Cupid with a Satyr, Correggio depicts the Roman goddess Venus sleeping with her son Eros or more commonly know as Cupid. He also depicts a satyr who has come upon the sleeping goddess and child. Correggio's painting demonstrates in a rather overt manner in some ways the level of influence that Greco-Roman culture effected the renaissance. Artists went so far as to do master painting of there gods, glorifying them.