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The Odyssey is an 1850 painting by the French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, showing a female personification of the eponymous poem by Homer. It is now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon . [ 1 ]
This article about the development of themes in Italian Renaissance painting is an extension to the article Italian Renaissance painting, for which it provides additional pictures with commentary. The works encompassed are from Giotto in the early 14th century to Michelangelo 's Last Judgement of the 1530s.
Divine Love Conquering Earthly Love. 1602–1603 Oil on canvas. 179 x 118 cm. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome. In 1602, shortly after Amor Vincit was completed, Cardinal Benedetto Giustiniani , Vincenzo's brother and collaborator in the creation of the Giustiniani collection of contemporary art commissioned a painting from the noted ...
Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez, [1] painted between 1814 and 1816 and now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples. It was commissioned for Gioacchino Murat by Naples' interior minister Giuseppe Zurlo , using dimensions, price and subject specified by Hayez's patron ...
Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian Peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political states, some independent but others controlled by external powers.
It was the dominant style in Italian painting until the end of the 13th century, when Cimabue and Giotto began to take Italian, or at least Florentine, painting into new territory. But the style continued until the 15th century and beyond in some areas and contexts. [10]
Christ with disciples in the painting.. The Brancacci Chapel, in the basilica of Santa Maria del Carmine, was founded around 1366/7 by Pietro Brancacci. [3] The chapel passed to Pietro's nephew, Felice Brancacci, who some time between 1423 and 1425 commissioned the painter Masolino to decorate the walls with a series of frescoes from the life of Saint Peter.