Mars Resting

Mars Resting

Artist	Diego Velázquez
Year	c.1640
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	179 cm × 95 cm (70 in × 37 in)
Location	Museo del Prado, Madrid

Mars or Resting Mars (Descanso de Marte, literally The Rest of Mars) is a 1640 painting by Diego Velázquez. It is now in the Prado Museum. The painting was inspired by Il Pensieroso, one of Michelangelo's sculptures for the Medici in the new sacristy of the Basilica of San Lorenzo. This painting is a satirical depiction of the god Mars. It is thought to have been finished around 1639-1640.

External links

Velázquez , exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this painting (see index)

Diego Velázquez (List of works)

Genre	The Lunch (c. 1617) Old Woman Frying Eggs (c. 1618) The Farmers' Lunch (1618) The Three Musicians (1618) The Waterseller of Seville (1618–1622) The Kitchen Maid (1620–22) The Needlewoman (c. 1635–43)

History	The Triumph of Bacchus (1628–29) Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan (1629) The Surrender of Breda (1634–35) Mars Resting (1640) Rokeby Venus (c. 1647–51) Female Figure (1648) Las Hilanderas (c. 1657)

Religious	Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1618) San Pablo (1618–20) Adoration of the Magi (1619) Joseph's Tunic (1630) Temptation of St. Thomas (1632) Christ Crucified (1632) Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1641–44)

Portraits	Jerónima de la Asunción (1620) Don Luis de Góngora (1622) Philip IV in Armour (after 1623) Count-Duke of Olivares (1624) The Infante Don Carlos (1626–27) Maria Anna (1630) Philip IV in Brown and Silver (1630s) Portrait of a Man (c. 1630) Prince Balthasar Charles with a Dwarf (1631) Doña Antonia de Ipeñarrieta y Galdós and Her Son Don Luis (1634) Count-Duke of Olivares (1635) Prince Balthasar Charles as a Hunter (1635) Juan Martínez Montañés (1635–36) Pablo de Valladolid (1636–37) Lady with a Fan (1638–39) Philip IV in Fraga (1644) Sebastián de Morra (c. 1645) Francisco Lezcano (1645) Pope Innocent X (1650) Juan de Pareja (1650) Mariana of Austria (1652) Las Meninas (1656) Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress (1659) Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain (1659) Prince Philip Prospero (1659) Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Pink Dress (1660)

Equestrian portraits	Elisabeth of France (c. 1628–36) Count-Duke of Olivares (1634) Margarita of Austria (1634) Philip III (1634–35) Philip IV (1635–36) Prince Balthasar Charles (1635)

Jesters	Don John of Austria (1632–1633) Barbarroja (1633) Calabacillas (1637–39) Don Diego de Acedo (1645)

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