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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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Albani, Francesco
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Winter
Painting ID:: 62434
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Albani, Francesco
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Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1578-1660 Albani's students included Pier Francesco Mola and Andrea Sacchi. Italian painter and draughtsman. He was a distinguished artist of the Bolognese school, deeply influenced by Annibale Carracci's classicism, who worked in Rome as well as Bologna, painting altarpieces, frescoes and and cabinet pictures. His fame rests on his idyllic landscapes and small mythological pictures, |
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1616-17 Oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome Francesco Albani, an exponent of the classical ideal, chose a format for his four tondos which, in his own words, "softened" his pictorial expression. The subject matter is taken from Philostratus (Eikones I,6) who describes the games of cupids throughout the four seasons: throwing apples in spring, the fiery furnace of summer, Venus and Adonis taking their farewell in autumn and sleep in winter. Author: ALBANI, Francesco Title: Winter , 1601-1650 , Italian Form: painting , mythological |
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Related Paintings::.
| Picture gallery with views of modern Rome | Still Life with Peaches, | La fuite en Egypte (mk11) | |
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