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 *ing from Vulcan the armour forged for Æneas. Vulcan, seated at right, extends his hand to Venus; a cupid and a cyclops 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; Réveil.—Smith, iii. 27; Gal. de Vienne, iii. Pl. 146; Guiffrey, 253; Larousse, xv. 882; Réveil, xiii. 933.

Venus and Vulcan, Giulio Romano, Louvre, Paris.

Subject treated also by Pietro Liberi, Dresden Museum; François Boucher, Louvre, Paris; Jan Brueghel, Palazzo Cambiaso, Genoa; Charles Joseph Natoire, Louvre, Bordeaux Museum; Montpellier Museum; Rubens, Brussels Museum.

VENUS WORSHIP, Titian, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 5 ft. 8 in. × 5 ft. 9 in. Subject from Philostratus (Eikones, i. 6). Venus, a marble statue on a pedestal, with two nymphs at her feet, offering gifts; a stream at the base of the pedestal waters the 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 Aldobrandini; 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; Sainsbury Papers, 238, 353.

Venus and Vulcan, Anton Van Dyck, Louvre, Paris.

VENUSTI, MARCELLO, 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 and neat execution. Works: Christ appearing to Souls in Purgatory, Colonna Gallery, Rome; Copy of Last Judgment by Michel