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| Anonymous French Maker Pendant with Figure of Mars ca. 1550 gold, silver, lapis lazuli, opals, chalcedony, rubies, pearls Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Mars ca. 1588 chiaroscuro woodcut British Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Mars ca. 1588-90 chiaroscuro woodcut British Museum |
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| Charles Brown Mars and Bellona ca. 1784 carnelian intaglio Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jacob Bos Colossal Statue of Mars 1562 engraving British Museum |
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| Ludovico Gimignani Mars ca. 1680-90 fresco Villa Rospigliosi Lamporecchio (Tuscany) |
from The Secular Masque
MARS
Inspire the vocal brass, inspire;
The world is past its infant age:
Arms and honour,
Arms and honour,
Set the martial mind on fire,
And kindle manly rage.
Mars has look'd the sky to red;
And peace, the lazy god, is fled.
Plenty, peace, and pleasure fly;
The sprightly green
In woodland-walks, no more is seen;
The sprightly green, has drunk the Tyrian dye.
Sound the trumpet, beat the drum
Through all the world around;
Sound a reveille, sound, sound,
The warrior god is come.
– John Dryden (1700)
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| Ludovico Gimignani Mars (detail) ca. 1680-90 fresco Villa Rospigliosi Lamporecchio (Tuscany) |
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| Jan Collaert Mars ca. 1587 engraving British Museum |
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| James Anderson Ludovisi Mars (Museo delle Terme, Rome) ca. 1845-55 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Roman Empire Ludovisi Mars 2nd century AD marble Museo delle Terme, Rome |
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| Guercino Mars with Cupid 1649 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum |
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| Diego Velázquez The God Mars ca. 1638 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Antonio Canova Mars and Venus (detail) 1817-22 marble Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Mars before 1662 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Hendrick ter Brugghen Sleeping Mars 1629 oil on panel Centraal Museum,Utrecht |