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| Maarten van Heemskerck Venus at the Forge of Vulcan 1536 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| François Boucher Venus at the Forge of Vulcan 1769 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi Venus at the Forge of Vulcan 1775 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Gérard de Lairesse Venus bringing Arms to Aeneas 1668 oil on canvas (sketch) Musée Magnin, Dijon |
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| Giovanni Battista Ortolani Damon Aeneas and Achates with Venus 1781 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Vincenzo Guarana Aeneas and Achates with Venus 1781 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Ferdinand Bol Venus and Mars ca. 1660 oil on canvas Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Friedrich Christoph Steinhammer Mars and Venus ca. 1620 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| Piero di Cosimo Venus and Mars ca. 1505 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Pietro de Angelis Venus and Mars surprised by Vulcan within a Ruin ca. 1800 drawing, with added watercolor Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Bartholomeus Spranger Venus and Mercury ca. 1595-97 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Noël-Nicolas Coypel Venus, Bacchus and the Three Graces 1726 oil on canvas Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève |
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| Ferdinand Bol Portrait historié of Wigbold Slicher and Elisabeth Spiegel as Paris and Venus 1656 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum |
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| Johan Zoffany Venusa nd Adonis ca. 1770 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| Hans von Aachen Venusa nd Adonis ca. 1574-88 oil on canvas Harvard Art Museums |
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| William Orpen Myself and Venus 1910 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
from The Servant Question
A most unlikely housemaid
or maid-of-all-work you must have been,
or maid-of-all-work you must have been,
you with your carefree attitude
to kitchen hygiene,
intensified on a whim
but witnessed mainly by the thickening slick
of grease on your press tops
of grease on your press tops
and tea leaf-choked plughole.
Your spidery script survives
Your spidery script survives
on my kitchen jars to this day:
Jam, Tea, Sugar, Flour (Self-Raising).
I have been laughing along with Woolf
at her refractory chars:
Lottie was it,
or Nellie (never a surname);
always carping on about their insides,
resentful and swart-eyed,
superstitious as children.
I read:
It strikes me that one is absurd to expect
It strikes me that one is absurd to expect
good temper or magnanimity from servants,
considering what crowded small rooms they live in,
with their work all about them.
– Caitríona O'Reilly, Geis (2015)