Marte en los brazos de Venus · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Marte en los brazos de Venus
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome
Description: This image depicts the god Mars and Venus having an affair. They are depicted wrapped in each other's embrace as they are surrounded by winged cherubs. The sun god, who sees everything on Earth had seen Venus and Mars in bed together and told Venus’ husband Vulcan. In a jealous rage, Vulcan, the god of craftsmanship and fire, had created thin wires made from gold to fashion a net in order to trap the adulterers. It appears that two of the cherubs in the top right corner of the image are carrying the net that will catch Venus and Mars.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24959
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1809)
Image: mta_24959_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Venus; Mars; Vulcan; Gods; Affairs; Goddesses; Mythology