Art And Love In Renaissance Italy

The Metropolitan Museum in New york has just closed a show called Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Francesco Colonna
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (The Strife of Love in a Dream of Poliphilo)
Couple Embracing (Book 2, C5V)
Venice: Aldus Manutius, December 1499

a blurb from the Museums site

This exhibition explores the various exceptional objects created to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance. The approximately 150 objects, which date from about 1400 to the mid-16th century, range from exquisite examples of maiolica and jewelry given as gifts to the couple, to marriage portraits and paintings that extol sensual love and fecundity, such as the Metropolitan’s Venus and Cupid by the great Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto. The exhibition also includes some of the rarest and most significant pieces of Renaissance glassware, cassone panels, birth trays, and drawings and prints of amorous  subjects.

Rob Mattews posted another great print from that show on his blog.