# Venus, Mars, and Vulcan [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TINTORETTO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Black chalk, pen drawing in brown, color-washed and heightened in white on blue paper, 202 x 272 mm ## Commentary Venus, Mars, and Vulcan c. 1551 Black chalk, pen drawing in brown, color-washed and heightened in white on blue paper, 202 x 272 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin This is a design for the painting Venus, Mars, and Vulcan, now win the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Tintoretto generally develops even complex spatial constructions from simple measurements and proportions. Here, for instance, the vertical central axis containing both the front corner of the bed and the head of the male figure are important. Tintoretto used perspective in a very loose, freehand way: the vanishing point placed at first, obviously, in the upper right corner of the picture was moved further to the right in the drawing of the furniture, and the curiously distorted tiles give the floor a downward slope which seems very appropriate given the sense of threat inherent in the scene. ## Related artworks - [A Philosopher \(detail\)]() - [A Philosopher]() - [Allegory of Faith]() - [Allegory of Fortune \(Felicità\)]() - [Allegory of Generosity]() - [Allegory of Goodness]() - [Allegory of Happiness]() - [Allegory of the Scuola della Carità]() - [Allegory of the Scuola della Misericordia]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Marco]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Teodoro]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()