Transcript Ringling Museum - Humanities 2210: Ancient World through

HUM 2210
EXERCISE 1: Giovanni del Biondo, Madonna and Child with Saints and
Angels, ca.1380-1390
Giovanni del Biondo
Byzantine Mosaic (12th cent)
EXERCISE 2: Benedetto da Maiano, Portrait Bust of Giovanni
Giovano Pontano, c. 1490
Benedetto da Maiano ( c. 1490)
Roman Bust (1st cent BCE)
Gallery 6: The High Renaissance in Venice and Northern Italy,
1500-1600
EXERCISE 3: Antonio Palma, Esther before Ahasuerus
Antonio Palma, active in Venice, Esther before Ahasuerus, 1574
Compare
Tintoretto, Christ Washing the Feet of His Disciples, c. 1547
Antonio Palma, active in Venice, Esther before Ahasuerus, 1574
Antonio Palma, active in Venice, Esther before Ahasuerus,
1574
Gallery 6: The High Renaissance in Venice and Northern Italy,
1500-1600
As sometimes from heaven to
humble roofs
Jupiter, benign, descends to us
here below
and, to prevent earthly eyes
from being blinded
by such a sublime sight, takes
human form;
So to my modest dwelling
without the shine and dazzle of
royal pomp
came Henri, called to so vast a
kingdom
that one world alone cannot
contain it.
Although he came disguised, he
nonetheless
so imprinted upon my heart his
heavenly merit
that my natural strength
abandoned me.
So, being assured of my great
affection,
with a gracious and open spirit,
he took my portrait,
worked in colored
enamel, away with him.
-Veronica Franco
Veronica Franco, by Tintoretto?, ca. 1575
Simon Vouet, active in
Rome and Paris, Time
Discovering the Love of
Venus and Mars, c. 1640
Jacques Stella, King
Candaules Shows Gyges his
Wife Queen Nyssia, c.
1645.
Claude Vignon, The Banquet of Anthony
and Cleopatra, c. 1640
Francesco del Cairo, 1630
Caravaggio, 1598
Fede Galizia, 1596,
Ringling Museum
Other renderings of the same theme
Other paintings by Francesco del Cairo
Deianira Abducted by the
Centaur Nessus
by Padovanino, 1627
Titian, Rape of Europa, 1500s
Gerard van Kuijl, attributed to , active in Rome
and Gorinchem, Narcissus, c. 1645