Not currently on view
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Venus, the goddess of love, descends on a cloud into the forge of Vulcan, the god of fire and metalworking. This scene illustrates an episode from Virgil’s Aeneid in which Venus has come to collect the suit of armor she asked Vulcan to make for her son, Aeneas. Several putti on the left play with the finished product.
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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Italian, 1609–1664) — Baccha
Alessandro Allori — The Judgment of Paris
Louis de Boullogne the Elder — Sacrifice Offered before a St
Fabrizio Chiari|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi|Nicolas Poussin — 
Jean-Baptiste Corneille — The Nurture of Jupiter
Giovanni Baglione — Rinaldo and Armida
Paolo Pagani|Giuseppe Diamantini — Saturn and Rhea
The Judgment of Paris
Carletto Caliari (Italian, 1570–1596) — The Judgment of Pari
Gerard de Lairesse — The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Hendrick Berckman — Bacchanalian Scene
Giuseppe Diamantini — Diana and Endymion
