Venus and Vulcan
Sketch for the ceiling of the Salón de Alabarderos, Palacio Real, Madrid
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (active Venice, Udine, Würzburg, and Madrid) 1696 - 1770
Date:
c. 1765Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
27 3/16 × 34 5/16 inches (69.1 × 87.2 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
Cat. 287Credit Line:
John G. Johnson Collection, 1917
c. 1765Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
27 3/16 × 34 5/16 inches (69.1 × 87.2 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 283, European Art 1500-1850, second floor
Accession Number:Cat. 287Credit Line:
John G. Johnson Collection, 1917
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aeneid [x] fire [x] love [x] mythological [x] royal [x] virgil [x]Venus, the goddess of love, is persuading her estranged husband Vulcan, god of fire and blacksmith to the gods, to make a set of armor for her son Aeneas. The classical subject, which comes from the Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil, was popular in paintings from the Renaissance onward.
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