Plate with Vulcan, Venus, and Cupid
Venus, the Roman goddess of love, was married to the blacksmith-god Vulcan. This istoriato (story telling) plate shows him at left forging an arrow for Venus’s son Cupid, god of love, who accompanies his mother next to the tree at right. Although he is portrayed as a child, C...
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Seligmann [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1492 |
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