Mars agitated by the mad desire for Venus Of Mars and Venus captured by Vulcan's deception. The reference is to the mythological narrative of the love between the two divinities present in The Art of Love written by the Latin poet Ovid: The sculptural group shows the divine couple consisting of Venus, goddess of love and beauty, and Mars, god of war. After a parenthesis at the Uffizi, in 1794 the artwork arrived in the Medici Villa of Poggio Imperiale where it remained until 1825, when it returned definitively to the Uffizi.
In 1570 the statuary group was transferred from Rome to Florence where it was placed in Palazzo Pitti.
