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<p>[QUOTE="PepperAnna, post: 4401299, member: 17332"]<b>Venus, Mars and Cupid in Vulcan's Smithy</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Bas relief by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1810</p><p>displayed at the Bertel Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen Denmark</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Explanation from the Bertel Thorvaldsen Museum: </u></p><p>"A domestic triangle is being played out here. Cupid’s arrows are from both sides being directed at the main figure in the middle of the relief, the goddess of love, Venus. Those coming from the left have been made by her husband, the blacksmith god. They are red hot like the love he feels for her. But Venus is cold and rebuts his approach. This is seen by the fact that she is unconcernedly hardening the points of the arrows by cooling them in a bowl of water. She is more interested in the arrow being pointed at her from the right by the god of war, Mars. For this expresses a love that she reciprocates, something that also emerges from the way in which little Cupid is placed between Venus and Mars. Cupid actually plays the impossible dual role in the drama of being both the creator of the love between Venus and Mars and the result of it – for Venus and Mars are his parents."</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]372383[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The cameo is from my collection and is a bit worn, but is very similar:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]372386[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PepperAnna, post: 4401299, member: 17332"][B]Venus, Mars and Cupid in Vulcan's Smithy [/B] Bas relief by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1810 displayed at the Bertel Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen Denmark [U]Explanation from the Bertel Thorvaldsen Museum: [/U] "A domestic triangle is being played out here. Cupid’s arrows are from both sides being directed at the main figure in the middle of the relief, the goddess of love, Venus. Those coming from the left have been made by her husband, the blacksmith god. They are red hot like the love he feels for her. But Venus is cold and rebuts his approach. This is seen by the fact that she is unconcernedly hardening the points of the arrows by cooling them in a bowl of water. She is more interested in the arrow being pointed at her from the right by the god of war, Mars. For this expresses a love that she reciprocates, something that also emerges from the way in which little Cupid is placed between Venus and Mars. Cupid actually plays the impossible dual role in the drama of being both the creator of the love between Venus and Mars and the result of it – for Venus and Mars are his parents." [ATTACH=full]372383[/ATTACH] The cameo is from my collection and is a bit worn, but is very similar: [ATTACH=full]372386[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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