战神与维纳斯被火神撞见

Wtewael painted this in 1601, on a sheet of copper barely larger than a postcard, about 21 centimeters tall. Around 1600 the Mannerist taste for tangled, elegant nudes was still in fashion in Utrecht, and copper let him work every detail like a jeweller. The story comes from Ovid. The smith-god Vulcan, catching his wife Venus in bed with the war-god Mars, forged an invisible net and threw the couple open to the sight of the assembled gods. Vulcan stands with his back to us on the left, drawing aside the curtain. In the shadows below the bed he laid a small still life of the lovers' cast-off things, armor, a sword, and Venus's red slippers.