Artist: Hendrik Goltzius
Date: 1585
Size: 41 x 31 cm
Museum: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, United States)
Technique: Drawing
In the foreground, Vulcan has just pulled off the net in which he ensnared his wife Venus and her lover Mars; the other gods, called in by Vulcan, join in the ridicule from above. Seemingly without effort, Hendrick Goltzius integrated two groups of nudes in complex poses, filling out the composition with Cupid at the lower right and Vulcan forging the net in the background. Goltzius made this drawing as a full-scale model for an engraving in the manner of Bartholomäus Spranger. Spranger
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