AD 1752-53
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Apollo Bringing the Bride. Ceiling of the main reception hall of the palace (Residenz) in Würzburg.
The architecture was designed by Neumann in the first half of the Eighteenth Century, and the fresco was added just after mid century (1755).
The painting refers to an event in the Twelfth Century, 600 years before the painting. Beatrice of Burgundy, who was to become the bride of Frederick Barbarossa, arrives, dressed in white, riding through clouds in the chariot of the dawn, accompanied by a host of mythological figures, some of whom threaten to spill into the space below.
Detail of Frederick Barbarossa (Frederick I) seated on throne with winged victory overhead and cupid delivering a sword.
Detail of Silenus and woman (a maenad?).
Detail of Beatrice of Burgundy on the chariot of Apollo, accompanied by erotes.
Jean-Antoine Watteau. Departure for Cythera (or from Cythera?) 1717. Musee du Louvre, Paris.
Also called Pèlerinage à l'île de Cythère (Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera)
Oil on canvas. Four feet three inches by six feet five inches (1/3 x 1.9 m).
Rolling hills descend to water, across which a rocky coast appears in the distance. The foreground consists of a greensward between trees. At the right, near a broken statue adorned with roses, a man whispers in the ear of a seated woman. Behind them, a man lifts a woman to her feet, and another couple starts down hill, the woman looking back over her shoulder. More figures make a continuous procession to the elaborate boat at the right of the picture, propelled by one twisting figure in the stern. Cupids hover over the boat and flutter off toward the horizon.
Detail, left: Figures in contemporary aristocratic dress disembark from a bark accompanied by erotes.
Detail, right: A couple in contemporary dress seated below a statue of Venus (?). A small child seated in front of the couple. The child is dressed in contemporary clothes, but a quiver of arrows lies on the ground next to it, evoking cupid.
Similar title used. Either Pilgrimage to Cythera or Voyage to Cythera.
Currently in the Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin.
AD 1780-90. Small model for larger group. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
AD 1780s. Cleveland Museum of Art.
AD 1771-2. The Frick.
Oil on canvas. ca. 125 x 86 inches.
ca. AD 1745. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
Hebe is the daughter of Zeus and Hera. She is the goddess of youth and vigor. Here, the Duchess of Chartres is depicted as Hebe, an allegory of her youth and beauty. She is shown as cup-bearer for her father, Zeus, depicted as an eagle.
AD 1773. Tate Museum, London.
Commonly called Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen.
Hymen is the goddess of marriage.
The three young women are making a garland of flowers with which to adorn a statue behind them in the park.
view of front
view of back, clear view of shell
mid-18th century. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Mme de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XVI, used as model for the figure of Venus.
AD 1788. The Louvre.
ca. AD 1802. Original in the Vatican Museum. Show here is the copy in the Metropolitan Museum, NY.
Compare the Apollo of Belvedere (V-3)
AD 1758.
Mengs painted this fresco expressly to fool the scholar Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the German art historian credited with pioneering the studies of Greek and Roman art. Megs was successful.
ca. AD 1770
Plaque of Apotheosis of Homer in jasper ware.
AD 1783.
AD 1824. Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
Andromache
Andromeda
Centaur
Hector
Helen
Homer
Mars
Paris
Perseus
Polyphemus
Theseus
Three Graces
Monster killing
Apollo
Bacchante (Maenad)
Cupid
Flora
Hebe
Horses of the sun
Cythera
Journeying
Love
Triumph
Painting to hang in houses
Painting for sale
Private space
Political message
Paintings for private patrons
Palaces
Ceremonial space