Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus

Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus is a 1630–1632 painting in the workshop of the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck. It was acquired by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.^[1] It illustrates the story of the Shield of Achilles, from the Iliad, Book 18, lines 478–608, in which Thetis requests replacement weapons and shield for her son Achilles from Hephaestus.

References

^ “Thetis Empfängt von Hephaistos Die Waffen Für Achilles.” Kunsthistorisches Museum, www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/650/. Accessed 20 June 2023.

External links

http://bilddatenbank.khm.at/viewArtefact?id=650

[1] “Thetis Empfängt von Hephaistos Die Waffen Für Achilles.” Kunsthistorisches Museum, www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/650/. Accessed 20 June 2023.

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Self-portraits	Vienna (1613–1614) New York (1620–1621) Self-Portrait with a Sunflower (1632–1633) Self-portrait with Sir Endymion Porter (1635) London (1640)
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Related	Hendrick van Balen the Elder (master) Peter Paul Rubens (master) Paul de Vos (collaborator) Van Dyke beard

Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus

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