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Mars, Venus and Cupid with Vulcan at his forge (the Mantuan Roundel)
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Mars, Venus and Cupid with Vulcan at his forge (the Mantuan Roundel)

Medium

Parcel-gilt bronze with silver inlay, integrally cast gilt frame with suspension loop.

Dimensions

confirmed: 11/16 × 16 9/16 in., 14.2 lb. (1.7 × 42 cm, 6.4 kg) Height with suspension loop: 18 3/8 in. (46.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, The Isaacson-Draper Fund, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund, 2021 Benefit Fund, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, Charlotte and Alejandro Santo Domingo, Michel David-Weill, David T Schiff, Annette de la Renta, Mark Fisch, the Hon. Kimba Wood and Frank Richardson, Denise and Andrew Saul, Beatrice Stern, Wrightsman Fellows, and members of the Acquisitions Committee Gifts, 2022

Classification

Sculpture-Bronze

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

Italian, Mantua

Rights

Public Domain

About Gian Marco Cavalli

1444–1544

Italian, ca. 1454–after 1508, activity documented 1475–1508