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OIL PAINTINGS BY GENRE - Mythological Paintings |
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Mythological Paintings
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| We must turn to Venice to see the real flourishing of Mythology in art. The Venetian painters perfected a new style of painting, distinguished above all by mastery of color and an intuitive response to nature. Venetian painters beginning with Bellini and his students Giorgione and Titian focused on the sensuous surface of things, on color and texture.
Such paintings not only give immediate pleasure to the eye, but act like music upon the moods, provoking thought and memory in the same way that a work of music does.Though he died very young and painted very few paintings the influence of Giorgione was enormous. His" Concert Champêtre" is a classic example of the new use of mythology in art. Two nude females serve lunch in the countryside to two fully clothed men. The painting hearkens back to a mythological subject by Marcantonio. In his wake followed his student Titian with his great series of Bacchanals, and then Tintoretto, Veronese, Correggio, and later, Rubens, Rembrandt, Poussin, Claude and the great French masters of the 18th century.
In fact a combination of the Venetian style of painting and, the mythological content introduced by Botticelli were to become the most highly regarded of all genres of painting until a little past the midpoint of the 19th century. |
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| Bacchus, c.1596 |
| Oil on canvas, 37 3/8 x 33 3/8 inches (95 x 85 cm) |
| Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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CAM009 |
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34x30,5 inches |
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465 USD BUY painting |
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CAM009B |
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38x34 inches |
| price: |
505 USD BUY painting |
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| The Birth of Venus, 1485 |
| Tempera on canvas, 67.91 x 109.65 inches [172.5 x 278.5 cm] |
| Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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BOS001 |
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21x34 inches |
| price: |
760 USD BUY painting |
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BOS001B |
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26x42 inches |
| price: |
1480 USD BUY painting |
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BOS001C |
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38x60 inches |
| price: |
1900 USD BUY painting |
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| Diana, 1867 |
| Oil on canvas |
| National Gallery of Art, Washington |
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REP048 |
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34x23 inches |
| price: |
405 USD BUY painting |
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| Medea, 1866-1868 |
| Oil on wood, 24.49 x 18.23 inches [62.2 x 46.3 cm] |
| Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham |
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SAA005 |
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26x19 inches |
| price: |
340 USD BUY painting |
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SAA005B |
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40x29 inches |
| price: |
440 USD BUY painting |
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![Bouguereau, William
Nymphes et Satyre [Nymphs and Satyr], 1873
Art Reproductions](img/William_Bouguereau_BOW003s.jpg)
![Botticelli, Sandro
La Primavera [Allegory of Spring], 1477-1478
Art Reproductions](img/Sandro_Botticelli_BOS002s.jpg)
