Mars Receives the Weapons from Venus and Vulcan: Allegory, Mars is being thrown by Venus, two putti lift the helmet to his head. Bottom right more putti with other parts of the armor, in the background Vulcanus is forging in his workshop. Historical allegory with probably Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, as Mars and Louisa Henrietta, Countess of Nassau, as Venus, Frederik Willem Brandenburg (I) van, Louise Henriette (Princess of Orange), Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, 1624 - 1654, canvas, oil paint (paint), h 225 cm × w cm d cm w 52 kg

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Mars Receives the Weapons from Venus and Vulcan: Allegory, Mars is being thrown by Venus, two putti lift the helmet to his head. Bottom right more putti with other parts of the armor, in the background Vulcanus is forging in his workshop. Historical allegory with probably Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, as Mars and Louisa Henrietta, Countess of Nassau, as Venus, Frederik Willem Brandenburg (I) van, Louise Henriette (Princess of Orange), Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, 1624 - 1654, canvas, oil paint (paint), h 225 cm × w cm d cm w 52 kg

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