The gods Ares and Aphrodite are depicted on Mount Parnassus in a Renaissance painting by the Italian painter Mantegna. The two gods are perched atop a cliff. Ares is in full gear (armor, short chitoniskos, shins, and a helmet) and he carries a spear in his right hand, while Aphrodite is naked. In her right hand, she holds a scepter. A little, winged Eros stands to their right, ready to shoot his arrow. The Muses dance to the sounds of the lyre played by the god Apollo just beneath the rock where the two gods stand. Hephaestus is on the left, in front of a furnace, while Hermes is on the right, with Pegasus.

Some researchers discern the hand of another painter, Lorenzo Leonbruno, in the landscape, but also in the faces of Aphrodite, Apollo, and some Muses. The painting was commissioned by Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua, to decorate one of the apartments in the Castello di San Giorgio. At the beginning of the 17th century, it passed into the possession of Cardinal Richelieu, and then to the Louvre Museum in 1801.