SUMMER SPECIAL: IRON MAN
A GALLERY OF HEPHAESTUSES
A gallery of depictions of the blacksmith god.
THE RETURN OF HEPHAESTUS
Following his (first) expulsion from Mount Olympus, a drunken Hephaestus returns, riding on a donkey, amidst frolicking satyrs. This episode is preserved on several pieces of ancient pottery, including the celebrated “François Vase”
“THE FINDING OF VULCAN ON THE ISLAND OF LEMNOS”
Piero di Cosimo. c. 1490
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT