and the circumstances surrounding its creation

to depictions of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus by the great Renaissance masters

Sculpture and Decorative Arts

2009) and Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France (University of Toronto Press

and African-American avant-garde artists in Los Angeles

Joachim Wtewael: Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan - Paperback BTS Books and Games and the circumstances surrounding itsAnne W. Lowenthal The Dutch artist Joachim Wtewael was a history painter especially admired for his astonishing small paintings on copper. The J. Paul Getty Museum's Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan is one of his finest works in this unusually demanding medium. Though only eight inches high, this Mannerist painting contains eleven figures in three different spaces, captured in a dramatically complex moment from the famous story told by Ovid in his