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The Artist Giovan Battista Ruoppolo was born in Naples in 1629 [1]. Giovan Battista’s father, Francesco Ruoppolo, was a majolica painter, and scholars such as Ulisse Prota-Giurleo assume that Giovan Battista might have worked in his father’s majolica…

The Pala della Peste (Altarpiece of the Bubonic Plague) depicts the Madonna and Child in Glory with the Patron Saints of Bologna: Petronius, Francis, Ignatius, Francis Xavier, Proculus of Bologna, and Florian.

The Madonna and child are in the…

This book goes in depth describing many findings about the infamous father and daughter artistic powerhouses- Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi. Orazio and Artemisia were both Italian Baroque painters. Keith Christiansen and Judith Mann explain the…

Ground floor building sketch for the Oratorio dei Filippini

The breathtaking “Neptune and Triton” was completed by Bernini in 1622-3. It was commissioned by Alessandro Damascenti-Peretti Montalto. The sculpture was intended to be the focal point of his large fish pond at his villa.

The sculpture is a…

A chart displaying the network of notable still life painters in Naples during this time period. The artists included in the chart were responsible for the establishment of a uniquely Neapolitan still life style of painting. Furthermore, the artists…

About two decades after Fontana’s “Holy Family with Saints Margaret and Francis”, Federico Barocci produced a “Nativity”. Both works dealt with the Holy Family as subjects which is the primary impetus for their comparison. On a deeper level, both…

Trade Card advertising Mme. Demorest’s Reliable Patterns,
[New York, New York]: [ca. 1870-1900]

Caravaggio' s depiction of Medusa. This work was painted on a sixteenth-century tournament and was commissioned by Cardinal del Monte. Caravaggio chose to depict Medusa in a terrifying manner with a horrified expression. Caravaggio depicts her at the…

Bernini’s Medusa sculpture shows Medusa amidst her transformation into a monster. Bernini’s depiction here is again heavily depicted by Ovid’s Metamorphosis. According to Ovid, Medusa was punished by Athena for having an affair with Poseidon in her…