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Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (c.1520)

Correggio (c.1489-1534) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine) c.1520 Oil on panel, 28.5 x 23.5 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli Compare: Correggio (c.1489-1534) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina 1510–1514 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit     Correggio (c.1489-1534) Matrimonio mistico…

Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (1510-1515)

Correggio (c.1489-1534) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine) 1510–1515 Oil on panel, 27.7 x 21.4 cm, 0.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Three women, two men, and a baby sit on or stand near a…

Lady Lilith (1867)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Lady Lilith 1867 Watercolor and gouache, 51.3 x 44 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Fascinated by women’s physical allure, Rossetti here imagines a legendary femme fatale as a self-absorbed nineteenth-century beauty who combs her hair…

Proserpine (1882)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine (Proserpina) 1882 Oil on canvas, 78.7 cm × 39.2 cm Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine 1874 Tate Britain, London     Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine 1878 Private collection     See also:…

Proserpine (1878)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine (Proserpina) 1878 Pencil and watercolor on paper mounted on a wood, 77.5 cm × 37.5 cm Private collection Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine 1874 Tate Britain, London     Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine 1882…

Proserpine (1874)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine (Proserpina) 1874 Oil on canvas, 125.1 cm × 61 cm Tate Britain, London Rossetti explained the subject of Proserpine in a letter to W.A. Turner, who bought a version of the picture in 1877: The figure…

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,…

La guarigione del cieco nato (1604-1606)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) La guarigione del cieco nato (Healing the Man Born Blind) 1604–1606 Fresco transferred to canvas Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona Mural Paintings from the Herrera Chapel.