Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegorie dell’amore: L’unione felice (Four Allegories of Love: Happy Union) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 187.4 x 186.7 cm National Gallery, London This is one of a series of four paintings by Veronese that concern the trials and rewards of…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Venere e Adone (Venus and Adonis) c.1586 Oil on canvas, 68 × 52 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Compare: Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Venere e Adone c.1580 Museo del Prado, Madrid See also: • Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD): The Metamorphoses (English)
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Tentazioni di San Gerolamo (Temptations of St. Jerome) 1541 Oil on panel, 170 x 122.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze In accordance with a literary tradition focusing on his period of solitude in the desert, St Jerome has…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Vénus couchée d’Urbino, d’après le Titien (Reclining Venus of Urbino, after Titian) 1822 Oil on canvas, 116 x 168 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere di Urbino 1538 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Ritratto di un collezionista (Portrait of a Collector) c.1523 Oil on wood, 89.5 x 63.8 cm National Gallery, London When listed in the inventory of Ranuccio Farnese in 1587 this picture was titled Portrait of a Priest, but there…
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
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,…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus at the Mirror 1613–1614 Oil on panel, 124 x 98 cm Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 242.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Il giudizio di Paride (The Judgement of Paris) 1583 Pen and ink on paper, 36.6 x 47.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York On his father’s death in 1540, the young Alessandro Allori was adopted by Bronzino…