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Ceiling fresco by Andrea Pozzo in the church of Sant' Ignazio

The Artist Paolo Porpora was born in Naples in 1617 and spent the first ten to twenty years of his career in Naples, before moving to Rome [1]. Porpora became a pupil in Giacomo Recco’s bottega (workshop) in 1632 at age 15, as evidenced by a 1632…

The Palazzo Sampieri frescoes are a set of paintings by Annibale, Agostino and Ludovico Carracci in the Palazzo Sampieri in Bologna. They form the last surviving collection of works by the three artists. Hercules Guided by Virtue is the ceiling…

This work features two naked bodies in basically sideways motion, and its subject is the race between the man-resisting girl Atalanta and her ardent suitor, Hippomenes; he has thrown a golden apple to distract her, and she is stooping to pick it up.…

This 1578 oil painting depicting the Holy Family is one of multiple works Fontana created of the Holy Family. Her talent for capturing the female form is prominently on display in this work, as she represents Mary from the knees up. Fontana captures…

Plan of the mother church for the Jesuit Order in Rome.

This painting was originally documented in 1638 to be in the possession of the Grand Duchess Maria Maddalena of Austria. This painting was based on Artemisia's fathers' artwork, "Judith and her maidservant with the head of Holofernes", c. 1608, by…

This painting was thought to be commissioned by someone of high stature due to the colors and pigments used. The blue sleeve in the painting was done by using a pure form of Lazurite. This ultramarine color was extremely expensive, and was generally…

Ceiling painting by Paolo Veronese, originally in the Palazzo Ducale

Kepler's model of the six known planets and their orbits around the sun through the five known platonic solids.