Venus at Vulcan
Title: Venus at Vulcan
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 359 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Venus at Vulcan
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 359 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Venus at Vulcan’s Forge
A French painter named Francois Boucher, well-known for his
rococo style paintings that commonly portrayed rustic and
mythological scenes. Francois Boucher was born in France. He
was the son of a lace designer. His greatest influence when
growing up was Antoine Watteau. He admired his delicate style
of painting. When Bocher grew up he decided to leave France
and off to Rome. In Rome he studied with the painter Francois
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by the
putto on Venus’s side, who aims his arrow directly at Vulcan’s
heart. Vulcan has succumbed to love, a fire more subtle and
more powerful that that with which he forges steel”- Kimball Art
Museum. This describes the influence and inspiration of his
painting. Towards the end of his life his style of painting was
widely imitated. At the rise of neoclassicism his paintings
became less favored. Francois Boucher died in 1770.