Three gods and a young boy Zeus sitting

Three gods and a young boy: Zeus (sitting), Aphrodite (or Hera) and Ares. Attic, end 5 th BCE. Louvre, Paris, France

Perugino, Pietro (1448 -1523) Mars, ceiling fresco. Collegio del Cambio, Palazzo dei. Priori (Comunale), Perugia, Italy

Michel ANGUIER Mars Bronze statuette, Etruscan Museo Archeologico, Florence Jean de BOLOGNE Mars Ares Borghese. Louvre , Paris,

Ares Ludovisi, fundet 1622. Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Mars, God of War Museo del Prado, Madrid

Aphrodite and Ares . B. C 580 Sophilos , Ares 515 -500 B. C. Aphrodite and Ares Suessula painter 430/390 BC

Ares Frieze , 6 th c. B. C. A helmeted Ares during the battle of the Gods & Giants. Detail from the frieze of the Treasury of the Siphnians at Delphi Museum

Ares. Battle of the Giants against the gods. Relief from the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury, 525 BCE. Archaeological Museum, Delphi, Greece

Helmeted young warrior, so-called Ares. Roman copy from a Greek original , Canope at the Villa Adriana in Tivoli.

Artist/Maker Nikosthenes, potter (signed. ) Zeus ( centre) parts Athena (left) and Ares( right) while Kyknos ( far right) flees Heracles ( here unseen) approaching in his chariot (far left). Attic black-figured volute-krater, 540/510 BC. The British Museum, London

A miniature early 2 nd-century Roman bronze figurine of Mars was the Roman god of war, the son of Juno and either Jupiter or a magical flower. As the word Mars has no Indo-European derivation, it is most likely the Latinized form of the agricultural Etruscan god Maris. Initially the Roman god of fertility and vegetation and a protector of cattle, fields and boundaries, Mars later became associated with battle and identified with the Greek god Ares. He was also a tutelary god of Rome, and as the legendary father of its founder, Romulus, Mars was considered the ancestor of the Roman people.

The Mars of Todi. Etruscan bronze statue. Early 4 th c. Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican Museums, Vatican State

“Ludovisi Ares. ” Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 320 BC. Some restorations in Cararra marble by Gianlorenzo Bernini, 1622. Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome

Guillaume Dupré , Louis XIII as Dauphin between Henri IV as Mars and Marie as Pallas , 1603 Léonard Limosin, Allegory of Charles IX as Mars , 1573

Dubois, Ambroise, (1543 -1614) Henry IV as Mars. Musee National du Chateau de Pau, France Antoine Coysevox Louis as Mars, 1678 Salon de la Guerre , Versailles

CANOVA, Antonio Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker 1803 -09 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Jacob Jordaens A Young Cavalier Executing a Levade in the Presence of Mars and Mercury (1640 – 1650)

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Apollo, the Muses, and Mars: In Praise of Tasso 1740/1745

Fountain of Mars (Ares), Poznan , Poland

Head of helmeted Ares. Luna marble, Roman copy, late 2 nd century AD, of a Greek original of the 2 nd half 5 th century BC generally attributed to Alcamenes circle of Pheidias. From the sacred area of the Largo Argentina in Rome. Stored in the Musei Capitolini, Centrale Montemartini.

Head of Ares , copy ca. 150– 160 CE, after a votive statue of Alcamenes in the temple of Ares in Athens (430/20 BC). Glyptothek, Munich, Germany

Mars of Todi Bronze, 4 th c. B. C. Museo Etrusco Gregoriano, Vatican Rei Inamoto Mars , 20 th. c.

Roman coin showing Mars armed , and yet holding out an olive branch in his right hand Roman coin showing Mars shaking hands with Faith Mars and Eagle Gold coin , 211 -207 BC.

Amazon in Battle Head of Ares Bronze Coin c. 210 B. C.

Rhea Silvia also known as Ilia , was the mythical ) and Remus , who founded mother of the twins Romulus the city of Rome. Her story is told in the Ab Urbe Condita of Livy. According to legend, she was the daughter of Numitor , king of Alba Longa and descendant of Aeneas. Numitor's brother Amulius seized the throne and killed Numitor's son. Amulius forced Rhea Silvia to become a Vestal Virgin , a priestess to the goddess Vesta , so that she (and through her, Numitor) would have no heirs; Vestal Virgins were sworn to celibacy for a period of thirty years. John Leech, Rhea from : The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott

The god Mars , however, was attracted to Rhea Silvia and raped her in the forest, thereby conceiving the twins. When Amulius learned of this, he ordered Rhea Silvia buried alive (the standard punishment for Vestal Virgins who did not remain celibate) and ordered a servant to kill the twins, but the merciful servant set them adrift in the river Tiber. The rivergod , Tiberinus found the twins and gave them to a she-wolf , Lupa, who had just lost her own cubs, to suckle. Subsequently, Tiberinus rescued and married Rhea Silvia. Mars & Rhea Silvia

Livy presents a somewhat different version of this tale. In Ab Urbe Condita , the Tiber had overflown and the soldiers were ordered to expose the babies to the Tiber, thinking that the muddy flooded ground would be sufficient to drown the twins. Livy also casts doubt on whether the twins were actually suckled by a wolf. Livy commented that it was believed that the wife of the shepherd who would eventually raise the twins, was a prostitute known to the other shepherds as the Wolf. Romulus and Remus went on to found Rome and overthrow Amulius, reinstating Numitor as King of Alba Longa. Mars and Rhea Silvia / Endymion and Selene sarcophagus. Museo Lateranense, Vatican

Mars and the nymph Rhea Silvia. From Vac, Hungary. National Museum, Budapest, Hungary

"Three full centuries That kingdom will be ruled by Hector's race, Until the queen and priestess, Ilia, Pregnant by Mars, will bear twin sons to him. Afterward, happy in the tawny pelt His nurse, the she-wolf, wears, young Romulus Will take the leadership, build walls of Mars, And call by his own name his people Romans. For these I set no limits, world or time, But make a gift of empire without end. Juno, indeed, whose bitterness now fills With fear and torment the sea and earth and sky, Will mend her ways, and favor them as I do, Lords of the world, the toga-bearing Romans". Virgil, Book 1 of the Aeneid

Peter Paul Rubens , Mars and Rhea Silvia , 1616/1617

A handle of a second-century CE Roman silver bowl depicts Mars and two cupids descending from Olympus to impregnate the sleeping Rhea Silvia The mosaic of Mars and Rhea Silvia. From SO IV, Tav. CV

SUVÉE, Joseph-Benoit The Combat of Mars & Minerva 1771 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille

Venus with Cupid and the armour of Mars. Engraved gem from the Thetford treasure. Roman Britain, 4 th CE. Thetford, Norfolk. British Museum, London Palma Giovane (1548 -1628) Mars with Putti. Museum der Bildenden Kuenste, Leipzig, Germany

Fragment of a double sacrifice to Mars. From the Campo Marzio, Rome, Louvre, Paris, France Preparation for a sacrifice to Mars. Musicians, byll and two sacrificers. Fragment of a monumental relief from the Forum Traianum in Rome. Mid 2 nd CE. Louvre, Paris, France

Sweerts, Michael Mars Destroying the Arts 1650 -52

CLAEISSENS, Antoon Mars Vanquishing Ignorance , 1605 Groeninge Museum, Bruges

Peter Paul Rubens. The Champion of Virtue (Mars), Crowned by the Goddess of Victory. 1615 -1616. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany.

VERONESE, Paolo Mars and Neptune 1575 -78 Palazzo Ducale, Venice

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino) MARS WITH CUPID , 1649 Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Enraged Mars Restrained by Cupid

DAVID, Jacques-Louis The Combat of Mars and Minerva , 1771 Musée du Louvre, Paris

TEMPEL, Abraham van den Mars Banishes 'Nering' , 1651 Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

Tintoretto, Jacopo Robusti Minerva rejecting Mars, 1576. Sala dell'Anticollegio, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy

Caron, Antoine The Triumph of Mars , 1570. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, U. S. A.

Jan van Orly, Augustin Coppens The glorification of Mars, 1716 (tapestry). Museum voor schone kunsten, Gent

Courtship of Venus and Mars Fresco, House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto Pompeii, 30 A. D.

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