The Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, attributed to the circle of Rosalba Carriera
Italian, 18th century
pastel
private collection x
The Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, attributed to the circle of Rosalba Carriera
Italian, 18th century
pastel
private collection x
Allegory of Painting, attributed to a sister of Rosalba Carriera
Italian, 18th century
pastel on paper mounted on canvas
private collection x
Detail of the god Pan and two satyrs, from an etching by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, called Il Grechetto. Italian, c. 1645. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From the Met:
In the 1640s, Castiglione produced a group of etchings that bring to life the world of Theocritus’ Idylls and Virgil’s Eclogues, in which Pan is frequently invoked as lord of the flocks and patron of pastoral poetry. In this etching, the resting god, wearing his usual crown of pine, receives a second crown of grape leaves. The volcano must be Etna, for the rustic verse of both the Greek Theocritus (ca. 300–260 B.C.) and the Roman Virgil (70–19 B.C.) is set in Sicily.
Copy after Giambologna’s Neptune Fountain in Piazza San Petronio, Bologna, by an unknown artist
Italian, c. 1600
pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red wash, on black chalk, ruling, on twelve sheets of paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Detail of Fortuna, after a model by Giambologna
Italian, early 17th century
bronze
Metropolitan Museum of Art