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 VENUS ing from Vulcan the armour forged for ^neas. Vulcan, seated at right, extends his hand to Venus ; a cupid and a cyclops edge of an undulating ground on which winged cupids swarm, some plucking the sacred apples, others tumbling, fighting, and dancing. Painted before 1518 for Duke Alfonso of Ferrara ; removed in 1598 to Rome, by Papal Legate Cardinal Aldobran- dini ; was in Palazzo Ludovisi until Cardinal Ludovisi sent it to Count Monterey, Spanish Viceroy at Naples, as a present to the King of Spain ; carried to Madrid by Monterey in 1638. Copy by Rubens in Royal Palace, Stockholm. C. & C., Titian, i. 191 ; Sains- bury Papers, 238, 353. VENUSTI, MARCKLLO, born in Mantua in 1515, died in 1576 or 1585. Roman school ; history painter, pupil of Perino del Vaga, afterwards of Michelangelo, whom he assisted in his works in Rome and Florence. He painted a great deal after that master's drawings, and is distinguished by a delicate Venus and Vulcan, Giulio Romano, Louvre, Paris. hold a breastplate before her bosom, while other cupids play with parts of the armour ; above, a cupid aims an arrow at Vulcan. Called also Minerva and Vulcan. Engraved by J. Axman ; Reveil. Smith, iii. 27 ; Gal. de Vienue, iii. PI. 146 ; Guiffrey, 253 ; La- rousse, xv. 882 ; Reveil, xiii. 933. Subject treated also by Pietro Liberi, Dresden Museum ; Frai^ois Boucher, Lou- vre, Paris ; Jan Brueghel, Palazzo Cambi- aso, Genoa ; Charles Joseph Natoire, Lou- vre, Bordeaux Museum ; Montpellier Muse- um ; Rubens, Brussels Museum. VENUS WORSHIP, Titian, Madrid Mu- seum ; canvas, H. 5 ft. 8 in. x 5 ft. 9 in Subject from Philostratus (Eikones, i. 6) Veuus, a marble statue on a pedestal, with two nymphs at her feet, offering gifts ; stream at the base of the pedestal waters the Venus and Vulcan, Anton Van Dyck, Louvre, Paris. and neat execution. Works: Christ appear- ing to Souls in Purgatory, Colonna Gallery, Rome ; Copy of Last Judgment by Michel- 346