Date : 1770
Material : Oil on canvas
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European Painting
Painting (Thème mythologique)
Area related
France
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Lagrenée's idealized figures, bright colors, and sculptural contours bring an early classicizing restraint to Rococo subject of mythic romance. Mars (the Roman god of war), his fierce character tempered by love, pulls back the curtain to gaze upon the sleeping goddess Venus. In the foreground a pair of doves echoes the lover's bliss, building a nest in Mars's abandoned armor.
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