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Painted by Jacopo Tintoretto for Doge Priuli, "Minerva Sending Away Mars from Peace and Prosperity" was created in 1576 and is located in the Room dell'Anticollegio. This painting is part of four paintings in a series by Tintoretto that additionally…

A centrally-positioned woman gazes directly at the viewer, her head cocked to the side as she reclines on a stone wall bearing an inscription. This inscription identifies one level of the figure’s identity as the biblical femme fatale Salome: "QVAE…

Unlike the supposed portrait of fellow poet-courtesan Tullia d’Aragona, Franco’s eyes are averted from the viewer, so she poses no direct challenge to her audience. Her face recedes into shadow, partially hidden from the viewer, leaving her…

In this painting, we see a young woman fleeing a satyr seated upon the ground. Gentileschi highlights Corisca's movement through the figure's spatial dominance of the picture plane and her billowing garments with highly articulated drapery. Her…

Cameria, the daughter of Suleiman the Magnificent, faces the viewer in a three-quarter pose, her expression still and confident as she makes direct eye-contact. Her left hand rests lightly on the wheel of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a choice that…

The ebony, semi-nude body of a woman emerges from a gold ground, positioned in a decorative niche as an allegorical figure. She is in motion, with one foot lifted as she stands in contrapposto, one arm raised to grasp a loop of billowing drapery near…

Giorgione’s Judith is a beautiful young widow who has already slain the Assyrian general Holofernes. In fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italy, Judith often served as an allegorical figure of Virtue triumphant, or as the victor in a number of binary…

Minerva Sending Away Mars from Peace and Prosperity is a single painting in a cycle of four paintings that include, Three Graces and Mercury, Bacchus, Ariadne and Venus, Minerva Rejecting Mars and the Forge of Vulcan. [1] These pieces were created…

The Venetian government, the Signoria, created a contest to see who would create a painting modeled after Dante’s Paradise on the wall of the Great Council Hall after the destruction of the fire of 1577. At first, Veronese was chosen to create the…

The painting shows the first of the three episodes dedicated to St. George's life: the other two are the Triumph of St. George and the Baptism of the Selenites. The works date to Carpaccio's mature period when he was commissioned by the "Scuola"…