1. The Arts and State Formation

2. Mantegna and the Gonzaga Camera picta, Mantova 1465-74

3. Marquis Francesco Gonzaga Caesar’s Gallic and Pontic Triumph Sources:
Mantegna, The Triumphs of Caesar 1484/ (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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13. 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)
woven into tapestries in Brussels by Pieter van Aelst
1623 Prince of Wales bought them
Mortlake workshop 1619 founded by JamesI
1630s copies woven

14. Vatican original
Mortlake workshop 1630s

15. Anthony Van Dyke, Charles I on Horseback, 1638, National Gallery London

16. Titian and Philip II of Spain

17. Titian, Philip II in Armour 1550, Prado Madrid

18. 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 ( ):
Danae
The Rape of Europa
Venus and Adonis
Perseus and Andromeda
Diana and Actaeon
Diana and Callisto

19. Danae

20. Artemisia Gentileschi, Susanna and the Elders (1610).

21. Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes (1620)

22. Diana and Callisto (National Gallery,
Scotland, )

23. Diana and Acteon, 1556-9, National Gallery Scotland

24. Perseus and Andromeda 1556, The Wallace Collection

25. Venus and Adonis, Prado, Madrid, 1554

26. 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.

27. Titian, Tarquin and Lucretia (1568-71: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

28. Titian, The Rape of Europa(1559-62: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)

29. Giambologna, Rape of the Sabine Women (1583: Piazza della Signoria, Florence)

30. Michelangelo, David, 1501-04, Baccio Bandinelli, Hercules and Cacus, 1525-34
Florence, Piazza della Signoria

31. Perseus and Medusa.
Benvenuto Cellini
Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence,

32. Giambologna, Equestrian Monument of Cosimo I, 1587-94,
Piazza della Signoria, Florence