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Æneas. Vulcan, seated at right, extends his hand to Venus; a cupid and a cyclops hold a breastplate before her bosom, while other cupids play with parts of the armour; above, a cupid aims an arrow at Vulcan. Called also Minerva and Vulcan. Engraved by J. Axman; Réveil.—Smith, iii. 27; Gal. de Vienne, iii. Pl. 146; Guiffrey, 253; Larousse, xv. 882; Réveil, xiii. 933.
Venus and Vulcan, Giulio Romano, Louvre, Paris.
Subject treated also by Pietro Liberi, Dresden Museum; François Boucher, Louvre, Paris; Jan Brueghel, Palazzo Cambiaso, Genoa; Charles Joseph Natoire, Louvre, Bordeaux Museum; Montpellier Museum; Rubens, Brussels Museum.
VENUS WORSHIP, Titian, Madrid Museum;
canvas, H. 5 ft. 8 in. × 5 ft. 9 in.
Subject from Philostratus (Eikones, i. 6).
Venus, a marble statue on a pedestal, with
two nymphs at her feet, offering gifts; a
stream at the base of the pedestal waters the
edge of an undulating ground on which
winged cupids swarm, some plucking the
sacred apples, others tumbling, fighting, and
dancing. Painted before 1518 for Duke
Alfonso of Ferrara; removed in 1598 to
Rome, by Papal Legate Cardinal Aldobrandini;
was in Palazzo Ludovisi until Cardinal
Ludovisi sent it to Count Monterey, Spanish
Viceroy at Naples, as a present to the King
of Spain; carried to Madrid by Monterey
in 1638. Copy by Rubens in Royal Palace,
Stockholm.—C. & C., Titian, i. 191; Sainsbury
Papers, 238, 353.
Venus and Vulcan, Anton Van Dyck, Louvre, Paris.
VENUSTI, MARCELLO, born in Mantua
in 1515, died in 1576 or 1585. Roman
school; history painter, pupil of Perino del
Vaga, afterwards of Michelangelo, whom he
assisted in his works in Rome and Florence.
He painted a great deal after that master's
drawings, and is distinguished by a delicate
and neat execution. Works: Christ appearing
to Souls in Purgatory, Colonna Gallery,
Rome; Copy of Last Judgment by Michel-