Roman Mythology
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Primavera
Painting · Sandro Botticelli
Botticelli's Primavera (c. 1480) is one of the most studied paintings of the Italian Renaissance, an allegory of spring peopled by Venus, Mercury, the Three Graces, Flora and Zephyrus.Crosses Renaissa
Saturn Devouring His Son (Rubens)
Painting · Peter Paul Rubens
Rubens' Saturn Devouring His Son (1636) gives the Roman myth its Baroque treatment: muscular, lit, and immediate. It sits in direct lineage with Goya's later, darker version already catalogued here.Cr
Pygmalion and Galatea
Painting (oil on canvas) · Jean-Léon Gérôme
Ovid's account of Pygmalion in the Metamorphoses is a single short story embedded in a longer poem about transformation. A sculptor of Cyprus, repulsed by the women of his city, carves an ivory statue
Diana of Versailles
Sculpture (marble, Roman copy of Greek original) · Unknown Roman sculptor after Leochares (4th c. BCE)
The sculpture is a Roman marble of the first or second century CE, copying a Greek bronze attributed to the Athenian sculptor Leochares from around 325 BCE. This double provenance (Greek original, Rom
The Rape of Proserpina
Sculpture (marble) · Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Bernini was twenty-three when he carved the Rape of Proserpina, finished in 1622 for Cardinal Scipione Borghese. The technical achievement that defines the sculpture is the deformation of marble flesh
