Caravaggio (1571-1610) Giove, Nettuno e Plutone (Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto) c.1597 Oil on plaster ceiling, 300 x 180 Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, Roma
Giove, Nettuno e Plutone (c. 1597)
Tag: Mythology
Naissance de Vénus (1879)
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Naissance de Vénus (Birth of Venus) 1879 Oil on canvas, 300 x 215 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Amore dormiente (1608)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Amore dormiente (Sleeping Cupid) 1608 Oil on canvas, 71 x 105 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze
Bacchino malato (c. 1593)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Bacchino malato, Autoritratto (Sick Bacchus, Self-portrait) c.1593 Oil on canvas, 67 x 53 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma
Amor Vincit Omnia (c. 1602)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Amor Vincit Omnia (Love Conquers All) c.1602 Oil on canvas, 156 x 113 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Narciso alla fonte (c. 1599)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Narciso alla fonte (Narcissus) c.1599 Oil on canvas, 113 x 95 cm Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica , Palazzo Barberini, Roma
Dido building Carthage (1815)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm National Gallery, London Turner’s painting is based on the English seventeenth-century author and poet John Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, the monumental Latin poem written by…
Marriage of Peleus and Thetis (1636-1638)
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Marriage of Peleus and Thetis 1636–1638 Oil on canvas, 181 x 288 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid As with the Rape of Hippodamia (P01658), this marriage scene was commissioned from Rubens as part of the mythological cycle drawn from…