Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus

Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus is a 1630-32 painting by the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck. It was acquired by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. 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.

External links

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

Paintings by Anthony van Dyck

Religious subjects	The Betrayal of Christ (1618–20) (Bristol ; Madrid ; Minneapolis) Christ Crowned with Thorns (1619–20) Crucifixion (1630) Crucifixion with Saints (1617–19) Deposition / Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1615; 1618; 1619; 1629; 1629–30; 1634; 1635; 1640) Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1617) Madonna and Child (1621–27) The Mocking of Christ (1628-30) Madonna and Child with Two Donors (1630) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1630) Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral (1619–20) Saint Martin and the Beggar (1618) Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague–Stricken of Palermo (1624) Samson and Delilah (1620 ; 1630) The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph (1629–30)

Mythological subjects	Cupid and Psyche (1638–40) Drunken Silenus (1620) Jupiter and Antiope (1620) Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus (1630–32)

Portraits	Charles I (Equestrian ; At the Hunt; Triple Portrait; with M. de St Antoine) Henrietta Maria (As St Catherine; Triple Portrait) Magistrates of Brussels (Preparatory sketch) Olivia Boteler Porter

Self-portraits	1613–14 1632–33 1635 (with Endymion Porter) 1640

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