The Dutch artist Joachim Wtewael was a history painter especially admired for his astonishing small paintings on copper. The Getty Museum's Mars and Venus
Surprised by Vulcan is one of his finest works in this unusually demanding medium. Though only eight inches high, this Mannerist painting contains eleven figures in three different spaces, captured in a dramatically complex moment from
the famous story told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses.
This book, part of the Getty Museum Studies on Art series, features a discussion of Wtewael's painting as well as a detailed analysis of the broader context in which the work was created, considering relevant historical, cultural, chronological, and similar issues.
Anne W. Lowenthal received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her dissertation, Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism, was published in 1986. Ms. Lowenthal has
taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, Hunter College, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Toledo Museum of Art. She has published numerous articles on Dutch painting and is a founding member and past president
of the Historians of Netherlandish Art.
Series: Getty Museum Studies on Art
Price: $20.00 
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