Oedipus Rex Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Producer: Alfredo Bini Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini Based on: Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Genre: Drama | Mythology | Tragedy Music: Pier Paolo Pasolini Country: Italia Language: Italian Studio: Arco Film Release date: 1967 Running…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) L’Olimpo, o Trionfo di Venere (The Olympus or Triumph of Venus) 1761–1764 Oil on canvas, 87 x 61.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is a sketch for a no-longer extant painting on canvas intended to decorate…
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) The Rape of Proserpina 16th–17th century Oil on panel, 43 x 64 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Le coup de foudre (Love at first sight) 1928 Oil on canvas, 160 x 66 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano This panel along with its neighbour, titled Le demon du jeu, was part of a series of…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Pan and Syrinx 1617 Oil on panel, 33 x 43 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Andrea Doria come Nettuno (Portrait of Andrea Doria in the Guise of Neptune) c.1545–1546 Oil on canvas, 149 x 199.5 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Paolo Giovio commissioned this portrait from Bronzino for a museum that…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Baccanale: un fauno preso in giro da bambini (Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children) c.1616–1617 Marble, 132.4 x 73.7 x 47.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The complex composition of intertwined figures, skillfully carved…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Battle of Centaurs and Lapiths 17th century Oil on canvas, 44 cm x 51.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) La toilette de Vénus 1873 Oil on canvas, 170 x 130 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Estate (Summer) c.1546–1548 Oil on canvas, 105.7 x 193 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Summer is represented here as Ceres, goddess of agriculture, reclining in front of her attribute, a row of wheat stalks. The work…