(1265–1321) Works: • De Monarchia (English) • Divina Commedia (Italian) ◊ Divine Comedy (English, Cary’s Translation) ◊ Divine Comedy (English, Longfellow’s Translation) • Il Convito (The Banquet) (English) • La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (English, Rossetti’s Translation) Quotes: • Dante Alighieri: Quotations Dante…
Carthage in Art: Turner, Joseph (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 National Gallery, London Births: • Terence (c.195 BC-c.159 BC) See also: • Cities | Tunisia
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…
Mantua in Art: Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Morte della Vergine c.1462 Museo del Prado, Madrid Births: • Federico II Gonzaga, 1st Duke of Mantua (1500-1540) • Virgil (70 BC-19 BC) Deaths: • Bellini, Nicolosia • Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1498-1526) • Isabella d’Este, Marchesa di Mantova…
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…
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…
(1775–1851) The artist’s works: The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli c.1794–1797 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Self-Portrait c.1799 Tate Britain, London Copy of Poussin’s Landscape 1799 Tate Britain, London Christ Crowned with Thorns, after Titian 1802 Tate Britain, London Mars and Venus, after Guercino…
(1601–1678) The artist’s works: A Basket of Flowers probably 1620s Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld 1630s Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jan Brueghel the Younger in Art: Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Family of Jan…
(1598–1680) The artist’s works: Baccanale: un fauno preso in giro da bambini c.1616–1617 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York San Sebastiano 1616–1617 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid San Lorenzo 1617 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Nudo maschile seduto c.1618–1624 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Anima dannata…
(1839–1906) The artist’s works: Les Saisons: Le Printemps c.1860 Petit Palais, Paris Les Saisons: L’Eté c.1860 Petit Palais, Paris Les Saisons: L’Automne c.1860 Petit Palais, Paris Les Saisons: L’Hiver c.1860 Petit Palais, Paris Copie d’après Le Titien c.1864 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Jeune…