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The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs,

Sebastiano Ricci helped revitalize Venetian art at the beginning of the eighteenth century by adopting rich, luminous colors that made his compositions appear natural and his painting spontaneous. The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs depicts a subject from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. An altercation began when Pirithous, King of the Lapiths, infuriated Mars, the […]

Roman Matrons Making Offerings to Juno,

Originally painted to hang above a door in Venice’s Palazzo Barbaro, this composition is designed to be viewed from below. Four luxuriously attired women cluster around a pedestal clutching treasures in silver and gold. At the base of the pedestal, a golden peacock—attribute of the goddess Juno—hints at the women’s location at the Roman Temple […]