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Description: | This small oil sketch shows a vision of the Pagan pantheon, with the gods and goddesses gathered on Mount Olympus. It is a modello made in connection with the illusionistic paintings depicting the capture of Mars and Venus in the Heaven Room at Burghley House, near Stamford. The paintings were completed by 1694 by the Italian artist Antonio Verrio, the most important decorative painter working in England in the late seventeenth century. Though close in composition to the painting at Burghley, the figures are grouped less densely. | Subjects: | Diana 4.171-189); mythology (Mount Olympus Hercules Metamorphoses Odyssey dragon animal (horse 8.266-365; Ovid lion); figure; literature (Homer Juno) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Verrio, Antonio (Italian painter, ca. 1639-1707, active in England) Æ Previously attributed to Solimena, Francesco (Italian painter and draftsman, 1657-1747) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8543... | Go to resource |
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