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Apoteosi dei Medici (early 1680s)

Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Apoteosi dei Medici (Apotheosis of the Medici) early 1680s Oil on canvas, 139 x 65.2 cm National Gallery, London This modello, or detailed oil study, is one of a group of 12 paintings – ten of which are in…

La fuga in Egitto (1701)

Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La fuga in Egitto (The Flight into Egypt) 1701 Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 48.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1692 Giordano was summoned to Spain as court painter to King Charles II. Charles was succeeded in…

Ratto di Europa (c.1570)

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Ratto di Europa (The Rape of Europa) c.1570 Oil on canvas glued to oak panel, 59.5 x 70 cm National Gallery, London The story of the Rape of Europa is told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Mercury is ordered by his…

L’unione felice (c.1575)

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegorie dell’amore: L’unione felice (Four Allegories of Love: Happy Union) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 187.4 x 186.7 cm National Gallery, London This is one of a series of four paintings by Veronese that concern the trials and rewards of…

L’infedeltà (c.1575)

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegorie dell’amore: L’infedeltà (Four Allegories of Love: Unfaithfulness) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 189.9 x 189.9 cm National Gallery, London This is one of a series of four paintings by Veronese that concern the trials and rewards of love, although…

Il disinganno (c.1575)

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegorie dell’amore: Il disinganno (Four Allegories of Love: Scorn) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 186.6 x 188.5 cm National Gallery, London This is one of a series of four paintings by Veronese that concern the trials and rewards of…

Venere e Adone (c.1580)

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Venere e Adone (Venus and Adonis) c.1580 Oil on canvas, 162 × 191 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Like its pair, Cephalus and Procris (Strasbourg Museum, inv. 634, oil on canvas, 162 x 185 cm), this canvas illustrates a…