#marsdeity

[kasios9]

Can be considered cannibalism the Roman God Mars eating a Mars™️ chocolate?

[fiery-phantasma]

“Ares”

Ares isn’t just physical war, he’s all wars, even the ones inside our head. He’s strength and the courage to fight another day even when it feels like you’ve been defeated, he’s the one pulling you back on your feet, brushing you off and helping you back into the fight. Ares isn’t about bottled up emotions either, he understands mortal pain, anger, and sadness, he understands the human condition and miasma more than anyone. He wants us to be able to feel and express these emotions in healthy productive ways. He’ll never let you fight these battles alone either, he’ll be your sword, your shield, your shining torch through the darkness. Above all he’ll be your number one supporter because he knows one of the toughest wars are the ones inside our heads and are wars only we can fight, no army, and that’s pretty badass. That alone, paints you a strong warrior in his eyes and he won’t let you forget it. 🖤

[nerdformythology]

Still can't believe I had the honor to see one of my favorite paintings live in Belgium I wanna SCREAM

"Mars being disarmed by Venus" by Jacques-Louis David

[greekromangods]

Mars and Venus

After Antonio Canova (1757–1822)  

Marble

** Visit my Links page for my other blogs & Facebook Pages

[greekromangods]

Mars and Venus

Flemish; 1580

Attributed to Hans Mont (c. 1545–after 1585)

Flanders (?), Belgium (Place Created)

Bronze

The J. Paul Getty Museum

** Visit my Links page for my other blogs & Facebook Pages

In this tabletop bronze sculpture, Venus, the goddess of love, and Mars, the god of war, tenderly embrace in a union of opposites. Although Hans Mont composed the statue with a dominant view of Venus from the front and Mars from the side, the complex entwining of the figures encourages the viewer to walk around them. Mont reveals the characters’ personalities through the shapes of their bodies. Venus curves her elegant long limbs in an unfinished spiral around the more rectilinear posture of the muscular god of war. As is characteristic of Mannerism, naturalism is sacrificed for elegance of composition: Venus’s forearms and wrists bend illogically as she wraps her long arms around Mars. While the figures’ bodies express their emotional intimacy, their faces remain surprisingly impassive. The sculptor’s choice of theme, the small-scale format, and the artist’s use of bronze show the interest of artists and patrons in reviving the culture and art of classical antiquity, beginning in the 1400s.

Images edited by me.

[greekromangods]

Mars and Cupid

1810

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844)

Plaster

Thorvaldsens Museum

** Visit my Links page for my other blogs & Facebook Pages

Mars is the god of war and so he is given a rather macho appearance. However, we meet him in peaceful surroundings together with his son, the little winged messenger of love, Cupid. So the sculpture confronts the two opposites with each other: big and small, adult and child, war and love. It is as though father and son are in the middle of some game of exchange: Cupid has for fun been allowed to try his strength on Mars’ big, heavy sword, and conversely Mars has taken Cupid’s little love game in his hand. And it is this game that is the centre of attention. Cupid is looking tensely up at his father to see whether even a god of war will be able to recognise the strength of love.

Marble version: A6

[greekromangods]

Cupid Restraining Mars

17th century

Bolognese School

Oil on canvas

** Visit my Links page for my other blogs & Facebook Pages

[greekromangods]

Mars and Venus with Cupid

1809

Leopold Kiesling (1770–1827)

Carrara marble

Vienna

** Visit my Links page for my other blogs & Facebook Pages