# Temple of Venus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LE LORRAIN, Louis-Joseph]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Engraving ## Commentary Despite international conflicts, European courts in the 18th century displayed significant cultural unity, and many artists traveled or settled abroad. One such artist was Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, an engraver and painter of still-lifes and history paintings, who was known, above all, as a designer of vases and furniture. He also organized public festivities \(La Chinea, 1745-48, Rome\). The picture shows one of Le Lorrain's proposals for the Chinea festivities. ## Related artworks - [Desk from the "Greek-style cabinet"]() - [La Descente d'Ulysse aux Enfers]() - [Project of a monument with Turkish characters]() - [Study for a Vase in a Suite of Vase Designs]() - [The Death of Lucretia]() - [Three Figures Dressed for a Masquerade]() - [Tobit Burying the Dead in Defiance of the Orders of Sennacherib]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()