Correggio (c.1489-1534) Giove e Io (Jupiter and Io) c.1530 Oil on canvas, 162 × 73.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Jupiter fell in love with Io, the beautiful daughter of the river god. The shy nymph wanted to flee, but the god…
Correggio (c.1489-1534) Allegoria del Vizio (Allegory of Vice) c.1531 Tempera on canvas, 14.2 × 85.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Companion: Correggio (c.1489-1534) Allegoria della Virtù c.1531 Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Isabella d’Este, Marchesa di Mantova (1474-1539)
Correggio (c.1489-1534) Venere e Amore spiati da un satiro (Venus and Cupid Spied on by a Satyr) c.1524–1527 Oil on canvas, 188 × 125 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) La Baigneuse (The Bather) 1846–1848 Oil on wood, 18.5 x 24.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le Repos de Diane (Diana Resting) c.1845 Oil on canvas, 40.64 x 33.02 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Femme nue couchée (Reclining Female Nude) 1844–1845 Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
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,…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Sileno che raccoglie l’uva (Silenus gathering Grapes) 1597–1600 Oil and egg on wood, 54.5 x 88.5 cm National Gallery, London Using an animal skin, two laughing satyrs with pointed ears and short tails – although without the usual hairy…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Giovane Satiro che raccoglie l’uva (Young Satyr gathering Grapes) 1597–1600 Oil and egg on wood, 54.5 x 88.5 cm National Gallery, London A naked young satyr, just like a little boy but with pointed ears and a curly tail,…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Marsia e Olimpo (Marsyas and Olympus) 1597–1600 Oil on wood, 34.4 x 84.2 cm National Gallery, London A naked golden-haired youth sits on a rock, playing the panpipes; another set of pipes hangs from the tree behind him.…