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Description: | The theme is from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Myrrha, the daughter of the Assyrian King Theias was transformed into a tree before the birth of Adonis. This painting is after a work by the late seventeenth-century artist Luigi Garzi. He began working in the studio of Andrea Sacchi at the age of fifteen and although his style evolved with the period, classicism always remained at the core of his practice due to the classical style of his master. | Subjects: | figure; mythology (Ovid) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Garzi, Luigi (Italian painter, 1638-1721) Æ After Previously attributed to Fetti, Domenico (Italian draftsman and painter, ca. 1589 -1623) Previously attributed to Italian (Bolognese) School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8336... | Go to resource |
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