The Arts and State Formation
Mantegna and the Gonzaga Camera picta, Mantova 1465-74
Marquis Francesco Gonzaga Caesar’s Gallic and Pontic Triumph Sources: Mantegna, The Triumphs of Caesar 1484/5-1494 (Hampton Court Palace since 1629) Marquis Francesco Gonzaga Caesar’s Gallic and Pontic Triumph Sources: Livy, Ab urbe condita, Appian, Roman History, Plutarch, Life of Aemilius Paulus and Seutonius, Life of Caesar Flavio Biondo, Roma Triumphans (1472)
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Charles I and the Raphael Cartoons 1515 Pope Leo X commissioned Raphael to paint designs for tapestries for Sistine Chapel about Peter and Paul (10) 1516-21 woven into tapestries in Brussels by Pieter van Aelst 1623 Prince of Wales bought them Mortlake workshop 1619 founded by JamesI 1630s copies woven
Vatican original 1516-19 Mortlake workshop 1630s
Anthony Van Dyke, Charles I on Horseback, 1638, National Gallery London
Titian and Philip II of Spain
Titian, Philip II in Armour 1550, Prado Madrid
Danae The Rape of Europa Venus and Adonis Perseus and Andromeda Mythological paintings (poesie) for King Philip II of Spain deriving from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1554-1562): Danae The Rape of Europa Venus and Adonis Perseus and Andromeda Diana and Actaeon Diana and Callisto
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Artemisia Gentileschi, Susanna and the Elders (1610).
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes (1620)
Diana and Callisto (National Gallery, Scotland, 1556-9)
Diana and Acteon, 1556-9, National Gallery Scotland
Perseus and Andromeda 1556, The Wallace Collection
Venus and Adonis, Prado, Madrid, 1554
Hope, C. (1980), Titian (London): 126 According to the tenets of contemporary criticism, fidelity to a written text was a prerequisite for a successful istoria or devozione, but when an artist painted a poesia he was permitted the same freedom of invention as poets.
Titian, Tarquin and Lucretia (1568-71: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Titian, The Rape of Europa(1559-62: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)
Giambologna, Rape of the Sabine Women (1583: Piazza della Signoria, Florence)
Michelangelo, David, 1501-04, Baccio Bandinelli, Hercules and Cacus, 1525-34 Florence, Piazza della Signoria
Perseus and Medusa. Benvenuto Cellini 1545-54. Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence,
Giambologna, Equestrian Monument of Cosimo I, 1587-94, Piazza della Signoria, Florence