Correggio (c.1489-1534) Ratto di Ganimede (Abduction of Ganymede) c.1530 Oil on canvas, 163.5 × 72 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Companion: Correggio (c.1489-1534) Giove e Io c.1530 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Ratto di Ganimede (c.1530)
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Venere, Adone e Cupido (c.1590)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Venere, Adone e Cupido (Venus, Adonis and Cupid) c.1590 Oil on canvas, 212 x 268 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Venus, the Roman goddess of Love and Beauty, is accidentally wounded by one of her son Cupid’s arrows,…
Stag Hunt of Elector Frederick the Wise (1529)
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Stag Hunt of Elector Frederick the Wise 1529 Oil on lime, 80 × 114 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Among Cranach’s duties as saxon court painter was to preserve important scenes of courtly life in his pictures.…
Crucifixion of Christ (c.1500-1501)
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Crucifixion of Christ c.1500–1501 Oil on lime, 58.5 × 45 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The small-format panel, which was probably used for private devotion, dates from Cranach‘s first known creative period, which the artist spent in…
Diana Returning from Hunt (c.1616)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Diana Returning from Hunt c.1616 Oil on canvas, 136 x 184 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
Venus and Adonis (mid-1630s)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 242.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s…
Figures sur une plage (c.1863)
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Figures sur une plage (Figures on a Beach) c.1863 Oil on panel, 21.9 x 45.4 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Les Demoiselles de Village (1866-1870)
Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) Les Demoiselles de Village (Young Ladies of the Village) 1866–1870 Etching on laid paper, 23.8 x 33.5 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Compare: Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Jeunes femmes du village 1851–1852 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York …
Les Grandes Baigneuses (c.1894-1905)
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Les Grandes Baigneuses (Bathers) c.1894–1905 Oil on canvas, 127.2 x 196.1 cm National Gallery, London Around 200 of Cézanne’s works depict male and female nude bathers, either singly or in groups, in a landscape. The earliest dates from…
Mercure et Argus (1761-1762)
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Mercure et Argus (Mercury and Argus) c.1761–1762 Oil on canvas, 59 × 73 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris