mythology

July 5, 2015
Italian painter Paris Bordone was baptized on 5 July 1500 in Treviso.

July 5, 2014
philamuseum : These days you might send selfies to your crushes, but back in sixteenth-century Florence, you’d have a portrait made of yourself as a Greek hero to send to your beloved.

April 22, 2014
thegetty : “Spend five minutes with this sarcophagus and you’ll witness a whole night—and a passionate one at that.

March 19, 2014
Paolo Veronese’s first monographic show in the United Kingdom opens today in London @NationalGallery.

January 12, 2014
thegetty : For many artists, mythological characters provided a context for the rendering of intense muscular figures.

November 3, 2013
Italian painter Annibale Carracci was baptized on this day in 1560 in Bologna.

October 11, 2013
blantonmuseum : Donato Creti The Education of Achilles, 1710s Oil on canvas The Suida-Manning Collection

August 31, 2013
Jesuit artist Andrea Pozzo died on this day in 1709 in Vienna, where he was working for members of the Austrian court .

August 21, 2013
The Worcester Art Museum has announced the acquisition of Veronese’s Venus Disarming Cupid .