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Ceiling fresco by Pietro da Cortona in Chiesa Nuova

Ceiling fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in the S. Maria di Nazareth, destroyed in 1915

Altarpiece of the Chapel of the Angels of the Gesu.

The Separation of Night from Day happens in the story of the Creation. A winged celestial being or spirit, who has variously been called Dawn or Twilight, separates two figures with two wands. Day, a scantily clad young man, moves swiftly towards the…

Jesus Christ shown in contrapposto form carrying the cross. This work influenced Bernini's Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius masterpiece.

The Artist
Giuseppe Recco was born into an intergenerational family workshop of still-life painters in 1634 in Naples [1]. Much of what is known about Giuseppe comes from Bernardo De Dominici’s Vite dei pittori, scultori ed architetti napoletani,…

Ruben's rendition of the "Rape of Proserpina" mythological tale. The work shows Pluto grasping Persephone vigorously. However, there are additional figures in this image. Minerva, the goddess of war, Venus, and Diana, the goddess of the hunt are…

Bernini’s “The Rape of Prosperina” marble sculpture portrays the abduction of Proserpina, also known as Persephone, who is seized by the god of the underworld Pluto. The work was commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese for his four large-scale…

Giovanna Garzoni and Maria Sibylla Merian lived two unusual lives for female artists at the time. Both of them left their husbands and both are renowned for their work in still lifes. Yet this article argues that their most powerful connector is how…

In the eyes of G. B. Passeri, a contemporary biographer, Guido Reni was "the noblest, most majestic painter who ever lived- not only in my own opinion, but by common consent.” Reni, the most celebrated Italian painter of the seventeenth century, was…