Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) & Workshop San Giovanni nel deserto, Bacco (St John in the Wilderness, Bacchus) c.1517–1520 Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 177 x 115 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris We do not know the circumstances of the creation of…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Il Ratto di Proserpina (The Rape of Proserpina) 1621–1622 Marble, 255 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The work portrays the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, god of the underworld. Narrated by both Claudian and Ovid, the myth tells…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Enea, Anchise e Ascanio (Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius) 1619 Marble, h. 220 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This is the first large sculpture group produced by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Scipione Borghese, for which a payment receipt dating…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Apollo e Dafne (Apollo and Daphne) 1622–1625 Carrara marble, h. 243 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma Apollo here is depicted in the act of running, with his right foot touching the ground and his left raised; the garment…
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
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Naissance de Vénus (Birth of Venus) 1879 Oil on canvas, 300 x 215 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Amorino dormiente (Sleeping Cupid) 1608 Oil on canvas, 72 x 105 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze In classical antiquity Cupid, the god of love, was always depicted as a young boy armed with bow and arrows. Such images were known as…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Bacchino malato, Autoritratto in veste di Bacco (Sick Bacchus, Self-portrait as Bacchus) c.1595 Oil on canvas, 67 x 53 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma Like the Giovane con canestra di frutta [Young Man with a Basket of Fruit] (inv. 136), this…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Amor Vincit Omnia (Love Conquers All / Cupid as Victor) 1601–1602 Oil on canvas, 156.5 x 113.3 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Around 1592/93, Caravaggio came to Rome from Lombardy, bringing with him formative impressions of the works of Savoldo, Lotto, Romanino…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Narciso (Narcissus) 1597–1599 Oil on canvas, 113.3 x 94 cm Palazzo Barberini, Roma The classical myth of Narcissus had been frequently represented since antiquity, but the version by Caravaggio is distinguished by its unusual compositional scheme, conceived rather like a…