(1594–1665) The artist’s works: Bacchanale 1625–1626 Museo del Prado, Madrid Le Massacre des Innocents 1626–1627 Petit Palais, Paris La Déposition de la croix 1627–1628 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg La Fuite en Egypte 1627–1628 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester La mort de Germanicus 1627 Minneapolis Institute…
(c.50 BC-c.15 BC) Sextus Propertius Works: • Sexti Properti Elegiarvm: Liber Primvs (Latin) Born c.50 BC Assisi (Italia) Died c.15 BC Roma (Italia) Occupation Poet Writer
(43 BC-17/18 AD) Publius Ovidius Naso Works: • Ars Amatoria; or, The Art Of Love (English) • Fasti (Latin) • Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones, Tomo 1 (Spanish) • Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones, Tomo 2 (Spanish) • Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones, Tomo 3 (Spanish) •…
(1829–1896) Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, RA The artist’s works: Aeneas Shown the Body of Pallas 1843 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Sketch for The Woodman’s Daughter 1850 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Mariana 1851 Tate Britain, London Ophelia 1851–1852 Tate Britain, London…
(1828–1882) Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti The artist’s works: Self-Portrait 1847 National Portrait Gallery, London Ecce Ancilla Domini 1850 Tate Britain, London Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Private collection Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Tate Britain, London Paolo…
(1631–1700) Works: • All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy (English) • Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry (English) • Dryden’s Palamon and Arcite (English) • His Majesties Declaration Defended (English) • The Aeneid, Translated by…
(1577–1640) Sir Peter Paul Rubens The artist’s works: Portrait of a Man 1597 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1601–1602 Galleria Borghese, Roma Venus and Cupid c.1606–1611 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Portrait of a Young Woman with a Rosary…
Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld 1630s Oil on copper, 26.7 x 35.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This infernal image of the 1630s was inspired by the “hell landscapes” of Jan Brueghel…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas (Venus schenkt wapens aan Aeneas) 1668 Oil on canvas, 161.8 x 165.8 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp In the 17th century, classicism broke through, also in golden Holland. Artists…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Dante et Virgile (Dante and Virgil) 1850 Oil on canvas, 280.5 x 225.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Having failed on two occasions to win the Prix de Rome (1848 and 1849), Bouguereau was hungry for revenge. His…