PD image: ‘Venus Presenting Weapons to Aeneas’, oil on canvas painting by Gerard Lairesse, size 161.8 cm x 165.8 cm (63.70 in x 65.28 in), location Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp, Belgium. The Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist Gerard Lairesse or Gérard de Lairesse (1640-1711) had a broad range of talents including music, poetry and the theatre, apart from being a celebrated painter.
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