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Painting of Venus on a cloud with Cupid, beside muscular blacksmiths hammering at a forge in a dim workshop.

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Sebastiano Ricci's painting Venus in the forge of Vulcan shows the goddess Venus, nude except for a yellow and blue drapery, seated on a cloud and gesturing toward a forge. Cupid perches beside her while muscular smiths hammer at an anvil and a bearded figure works at a bench in the foreground.

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