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The Lesche of the Knidians (or Cnidians) was a lesche, i.e. a club or meeting place, at the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. Today, it has been mostly destroyed; the only surviving parts are some architectural relics. It hosted two famous paintings by the famous painter Polygnotus the Thasian, namely the Capture of Troy and the Nekyia. It was ...
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The painting became part of the collection of the Museo del Prado, in Madrid, in 1819. [1] [2] Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan has been cited as one of the most important works from Velázquez's first trip to Italy [3] and "one of his most successful compositions with regard to the unified, natural interaction of the figures." [4]
Parnassus or Apollo and the Muses is an oil painting by Nicolas Poussin, from c. 1631-1633. It was inspired by the famous Raphael's Parnassus in the Stanza della Segnatura, and it is now held in the Prado Museum, in Madrid. Among the figures depicted are Apollo and, most likely, Homer.
Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto (c. 1597) is a painting by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It is located in the Villa Aurora, the former hunting lodge of the erstwhile Villa Ludovisi, Rome. It is unusually painted in oils on plaster and hence it is not a fresco, although it is sometimes (incorrectly) referred to as such.
Metropolitan Museum of Art The Persephone Painter , working from about 475 to 425 BCE, is the pseudonym of an ancient Attic Greek vase painter, named by Sir John Beazley after investigating a red-figure bell-krater vase of about 440 BC, which includes a mythological scene of the return of Persephone from Hades .
Hell is an oil-on-panel painting executed after 1490 by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch. It is currently in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy. [1] This painting is part of a series of four. The others are Ascent of the Blessed, Terrestrial Paradise and Fall of the Damned into Hell.