[Vulcan Forging Weapons for Achilles] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vulcan Forging Weapons for Achilles]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: Thetis, the mother of Achilles, is depicted standing on the right side of the engraving as she approaches the blacksmith god, Vulcan. Thetis sought out Vulcan as she wanted him to forge special weapons and armour for Achilles to protect him in war. Vulcan is depicted forging a helmet as he sits at his workstation. There is a cuirass that had already been forged resting on the ground in front of Vulcan.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:23228
Language: spa
Source Name: Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española, repartidas en quinze libros, con las Allegorias al fin dellos, y sus figuras, para prouecho de los Artifices [The Transformations of Ovid in the Spanish language, distributed in fifteen books, with the allegories at the end of them and their figures, for the benefit of the creators]
Parent Collection: Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española. Woodcut engravings by Virgil Solis (1595)
Image: mta_23228_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Thetis; Vulcan; Blacksmith; Gods; Goddesses; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Achilles