Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Pompeo Batoni

 

Triumph of Venice
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Maria Anna of Austria
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Time Unveiling Truth #1
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Allegory of the Arts
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Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
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Time Unveiling Truth #2
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Ecstasy of Saint Catherine of Siena
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Truth and Mercy
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Time Orders Old Age to Destroy Beauty
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Antiochus and Estratonice
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Dido and Aeneas
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Hercules at the Crossroads
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Apollo and Two Muses: Euterpe and Urania
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Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
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Katherine Durnford as Flora
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Sarah Lethieullier as Diana
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Susanna and the Elders
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Meekness
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Purity of Heart
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Aeneas Fleeing from Troy
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Princess Giacinta Orsini Buoncampagni Ludovivi
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Rest on the Flight to Egypt
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Martyrdom of Saint Lucy
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Atis and Galatea
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Diana and Cupid
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Death of Marcus Antonius (-> Cleopatra)
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Lady Georgiana Poyntz
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Arthur Saunders Gore and his Wife
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Thetis Takes Achilles from the Centaur Chirion
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Continence of Scipio
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Peace and War
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Holy Family with Saint Elisabeth
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Miss Frances Browne
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Izabela Lubomirska
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Mary Taylour, Viscountess of Headfort
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Countess Maria Benedetta of San Marino
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(1708 - 1787)
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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Urania - Muse of Astronomy

 

Pompeiian Fresco (ca. 70 AD)
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Roman Statue (2nd C. AD)
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Raphael (ca. 1510)
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Andrea Belfiore or Workshop (mid 16th C.)
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Anteviduto Grammatica Workshop (around 1600)
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Circle of Jacques Bellange (early 17th C.)
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Simon Vouet and Studio - Urania and Calliope (ca. 1634)
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Eustache Le Sueur (detail, 1647)
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Pietro Liberi (mid 17thC.)
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Francesco Cozza (ca. 1667)
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Francesco Trevisani (attributed, around 1700)
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Jean Raoux (1730)
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John Kaendler (ca. 1750)
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Placido Costanzi (1750)
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Louis Tocqué or Follower (mid 18th C.)
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Andrea Casali (mid 18th C.)
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Pompeo Batoni - Apollo with Euterpe and Urania (workshop replica, mid 18th C.)
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Christian Bernhard Rode (2nd half 18th C.)
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Joseph Fratrel (ca. 1780)
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Giuseppe Zucchi after Angelica Kauffmann (1781)
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Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1782)
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Robert Fagan - Urania, Erato and Calliope (ca. 1794)
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Charles Meynier - Apollo and Urania (1798)
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Antonio Canova - Urania Reveals to Thales the Secrets of the Sky (1799)
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James Sant (ca. 1850)
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British School (mid 19th C.)
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Giuseppe Fagnani (1869)
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Gabriel von Max (late 19th C.)
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Samuel Isham (1895)
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Giuseppe Mazzei (early 20th C.)
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Emily Balivet (2011)
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Leonid Ilyukhin (detail, 2018)
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Antonio Painn (2019)
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