# The Amazement of the Gods [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [AACHEN, Hans von]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on copper, 36 x 46 cm ## Commentary Jupiter, the ruler of the gods, is seated on a cloud, his attribute of an eagle with thunderbolts in its beak beside him. He is embracing the goddess Minerva, his daughter. The scene is witnessed by a gathering of the gods of Olympus, clearly shocked by what they see. Mercury, messenger of the gods, carries his winged caduceus \(wand\) in one hand and points toward the pair with the other. Diana, goddess of the moon, with her back turned, has abandoned her bow and her quiver full of arrows to watch. Apollo is seated with his lyre; Venus leans, naked, against a boulder as Cupid covers her with a shimmering drapery. ## Related artworks - [A Couple in a Tavern]() - [Allegory of Peace, Art and Abundance]() - [Allegory]() - [Anna of Tyrol]() - [Bacchus, Ceres and Cupid]() - [Bacchus, Venus and Cupid]() - [Boy with Grapes]() - [Couple with Mirror]() - [David and Bathsheba]() - [Declaration of War before Constantine]() - [Gaspar Rem]() - [Jupiter, Antiope and Cupid]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()