Erwerbungen des Freundeskreises (Auswahl)
Vulcan's Forge
Adriaen de Vries
Prague, 1611
Bronze
64,7 x 71,8 x 13,5 cm
Inv.-Nr. 69/57.1-2
Acquired with the support of the Freundeskreis des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums and the Bayerische Vereinsbank Munich in 1969
Gallery 28
The god Vulcan is depicted with his assistants forging weapons for Aeneas, the protegé of his wife Venus, who looks on in the background. The relief is the work of Adriaen de Vries, the most important pupil of Giovanni Bologna. De Vries came from Florence to South Germany, where two monumental fountains in Augsburg are among his major works. The Emperor Rudolf II, who appointed him sculptor to his court in Prague, probably commissioned him to make this relief with its massive figures surging out of the surface. The inscription reads: ADRIANVS/FRIES/HAGIENSIS/BATAVVS F/1611– The Dutchman Adriaen de Vries of The Hague made it 1611.
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