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Description: | Paris selected Venus as the most beautiful of three goddesses. This painting and another entitled The Armouring of Achilles are large fragments salvaged from the ceiling decoration of the hallway of no. 15 Queen Square, Bristol. The property, originally owned by a middle-class merchant, was probably constructed in the second decade of the eighteenth century and was demolished in 1912. Other parts of the ceiling showed Vulcan forging a shield, two single figures and two coats of arms. The traditional attribution to Antonio Verrio was rejected on historical grounds, and the ceiling may have been painted by one of Verrio's followers. | Subjects: | Juno Minerva) mythology (Judgement of Paris; Venus | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Verrio, Antonio (Italian painter, ca. 1639-1707 Æ Attributed to school of Previously attributed to Berchet, Pierre (French painter, 1659-1720) Previously attributed to Verrio, Antonio (Italian painter, ca. 1639-1707, active in England) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8885... | Go to resource |
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