WAM PUZZLE - VENUS AT FORGE OF VULCAN

VENUS AT THE FORGE OF VULCAN workshop of Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, 1568–1625)

1000 PIECES

Finished size 20" x 28"

The subject depicted here is taken from antiquity. As recorded in the Aeneid, Venus, the Roman goddess of love, asks her husband Vulcan, the god of metalworking, to make armor for her son, Aeneas. This scene, however, celebrates metalworking as it was executed in the Renaissance.