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Joachim Wtewael: Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan - Paperback BTS Books and Games Edited by Elizabeth Morrison andAnne W. Lowenthal The Dutch artist Joachim Wtewael was a history painter especially admired for his astonishing small paintings on copper. The J. Paul Getty Museum's Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan is one of his finest works in this unusually demanding medium. Though only eight inches high, this Mannerist painting contains eleven figures in three different spaces, captured in a dramatically complex moment from the famous story told by Ovid in his