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Description: | This painting uses classical ruins as a setting for figures. The figure in red drapery is possibly a quote from a classical sculpture, and recalls Panini's typically picturesque description of the antique. A group of women bring movement to the scene as they lift their children out of the reach of the charging bull. This juxtaposition of the reclining nude with movement creates an idealised picturesque view. Such compositions by the quadraturisti, such as Panini and one of his tutors Francesco Galli Bibiena (1659-1739), became very popular with young British travellers in the eighteenth century as souvenirs of their Grand Tour. | Subjects: | landscape; buildings and gardens (ruins); figure; animal (bull) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Panini, Giovanni Paolo (Italian painter, ca. 1692-1765) Æ School of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8848... | Go to resource |
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