Gods in the Odyssey Aphrodite, Ares and Hephaestus in the “Lay of Demodocus” Odyssey 8.266-366
Hephaestus The Return to Olympus The Birth of Athena Francois Vase, 6th cent. B.C. Florence
Hephaestus and the Armings of Achilles and Aeneas Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas Francois Boucher, 1757, Louvre, Paris Dutuit Painter, ca 480 BC
Aphrodite and Ares Red-Figure Vase (detail) Fifth-century B.C.
House of M. Lucretius Fronto Pompeii
Roman wall paintings, 1st century AD
Mars and Vénus, National Gallery, London Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) Mars and Vénus, National Gallery, London
Venus, Mars and Cupid by Bartholomäus Spranger (1546-1611)
Guercino, 1633
Copley, John Singleton 1754
Ares and Aphrodite Jacques-Louis David Oil on canvas, 1824 Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Vénus et Mars, surpris par Vulcain, Français 137 , Fol Vénus et Mars, surpris par Vulcain, Français 137 , Fol. 46v Ovidius, Metamorphoseon libri XV , Belgique, Flandre, XVe siècle
Mars and Venus Surprised Tintoretto, 1518-1594 1550
Heemskerk, Martin Van, 1536
Hans Johann Rottenhammer (Munich 1564 – Augsburg 1625) Mars, Venus and the Forge of Vulcan – oil on wood cm 32 x cm 40
Honoré Daumier 1808-1879
L. Corinth 1909
Nancy Farmer Hephaestus' Trap Pencil 16 x 12 inches approx, 2006