|
Date: |
|
Description: | Signed: yes Description: This painting represents an abduction, which some authors have interpreted as the Rape of the Sabines. It is more likely to depict the Rape of the daughters of Leucippus narrated in Ovid's Art of Loving and by Theocritus. The two young soldiers are Jupiter's twin sons, Castor and Pollux, who abducted the sisters Phoebe and Hilaira while they were bathing surrounded by their maids. The picture is signed by Giuseppe Porta, also called Salviati, who was strongly influenced by the Venetian tradition and, in particular, by the dramatic quality of Tintoretto's works. | Subjects: | Pollux Art of Loving); mythology (Castor Hilaria) Phoebe literature (Theocritus; Ovid | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Porta, Giuseppe (Italian painter, ca. 1520-ca. 1575) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9034... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
COIN
A very worn and bent…
-
|