Plate with Vulcan, Venus, and Mars

ca. 1540-1550 (Renaissance)

25.3 cm 4.4 cm

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The aged Vulcan, blacksmith of the gods, and his wife Venus, goddess of love, sit in a rocky clearing before a cave sheltering his forge. He gestures towards Mars, god of war, seated in a cloud above the forge, whom he recognizes as his rival for his wife's affection. Cupid, t...

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Castellani Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 39]; Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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