Director: Desmond Davis Producer: Ray Harryhausen, Charles H. Schneer Screenplay: Beverley Cross Genre: Action | Adventure | Epic | Fantasy Music: Laurence Rosenthal Country: United Kingdom | United States Language: English Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Release date: 1981 Running time: 118 minutes Laurence Olivier…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Rape of Proserpine 1839 Oil on canvas, 92.6 x 123.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Venere e Cupido (Venus and Cupid) c.1575–1580 Oil on wood, 143 x 226.50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier The Mannerist painter Allori designed a complex representation of Venus which owes much to the powerful figures of Michelangelo. The…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Allegoria del trionfo di Venere (An Allegory with Venus and Cupid) c.1545 Oil on wood, 146.1 x 116.2 cm National Gallery, London This is one of Bronzino’s most complex and enigmatic paintings. It contains a tangle of moral…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Venere dormiente (Sleeping Venus) c.1508–1510 Oil on canvas, 108.5 x 175 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Ragazzo con la freccia (Boy with an Arrow) c.1508 Oil on panel, 48 x 42 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Il Tramonto (The Sunset) 1506–1510 Oil on canvas, 73.3 cm x 91.4 cm National Gallery, London The meaning of this scene, which takes place in a rocky landscape at sunset or sunrise, is difficult to decipher, largely because…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Orphée ramenant Eurydice des enfers (Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld) 1861 Oil on canvas, 112.7 x 137.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Venus and Cupid after 1660 Oil on canvas, 118 x 90 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Former title: Hendrickje Stoffels as Venus For vague reasons of resemblance, the painting passes, a pure supposition of Bredius (1910), to represent…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Philemon and Baucis 1658 Oil on panel transferred to panel, 54.5 x 68.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with…