Venus and Mars Fresco

Venus and Mars FrescoA print of a Venus and Mars fresco in the tradition of the Roman wall paintings recovered from Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. The lovers Venus, the goddess of love, and Mars, the god of war are one of the most painted pairings in Roman domestic art, reclining together in the decorated reception rooms of well appointed Campanian villas. The affair of Venus and Mars is one of the most told episodes of Greco Roman myth, first sung in the Odyssey and

the artist's purpose-built museum and tomb

The subject is rare in that the moral of the struggle — life on the earth vs

immortal head under a great rock

the cap of invisibility

the Pegasus almost a rocking-horse silhouette

a martial echo of the Jupiter type

A print of Richard Roland Holst's Birth of Venus — the Dutch Symbolist's rendering of one of the oldest Greek mythological subjects

A print of Aphrodite rising from the sea — one of the oldest and most-painted subjects of Greek mythology

a Hellenistic Greek marble fragment of the 2nd or 1st century BC

a divine doubling that had fooled the armies on both sides

Meleager's statue type

its two stories of columns and pilasters