Venus and Vulcan

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Venus and Vulcan

c. 1765

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian (active Venice, Udine, Würzburg, and Madrid) 1696–1770)

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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Object Details

Title:

Venus and Vulcan

Date:

c. 1765

Artist:

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian (active Venice, Udine, Würzburg, and Madrid) 1696–1770)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

27 3/16 × 34 5/16 inches (69.1 × 87.2 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Accession Number:

Cat. 287

Geography:

Made in Madrid, Spain, Europe

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