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Bacchus and Ariadne
Artist: Sebastiano Ricci (Italian, 1659–1734)
Date: c. 1716
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Chiswick House, London, United Kingdom
Description
This scene of Bacchus marrying Ariadne is shown on the beach at Naxos. Bacchus wears a leopard skin, red cloak and rose wreath, and places a ring on Ariadne’s finger. Another woman, possibly a bacchante, a follower of Bacchus, holds a cloak to clothe the semi-nude Ariadne. A winged putto takes her crown to turn it into stars.
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The Greek Lovers
Artist: Henry Peters Gray (American, 1819–1877)
Date: 1846
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States
Description
Gray painted “The Greek Lovers” after a trip to Italy, where, as evidenced by the style and palette of this painting, he was influenced by the art of the Italian Renaissance. This painting was highly regarded in its day, and the subject reflects the nineteenth-century fascination with Greco-Roman antiquity.
Allegory of Sincerity
Artist: After Carlo Dolci (Italian, 1616-1687)
Date: n. d.
Medium: Oil on wood
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Lamentation of Christ
Artist: Agostino Carracci (Italian, 1557-1602)
Date: ca. 1586
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Description
Before the entrance to the cave, near a rock overgrown with bushes, Jesus is being prepared for burial (John 19:38-40). Christ's body is perfectly beautiful, retaining its suppleness and pliability. Only bluish shadows suggest death. On the right, the fair-haired Magdalene anoints him from a golden chalice. On the left, John the Evangelist holds a huge lit candle. The Magdalene's shimmering bright yellow silk cloak and John's bright red cloak frame the figure of the Savior like two blazing spots. The neutral tones of gray-blue and dark green echo the clothing of the other characters: Mary, Joseph of Arimathea, and the little angel.
Duncannon, on the River Dart, below Totnes
Artist: John Wallace Tucker (British, 1808-1869)
Date: 1866
Medium: Oil on panel
Collection: Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, United Kingdom