_Arts

Apollo and Aurora (1671) Artist: Gérard de Lairesse Title: Apollo and Aurora Year: 1671 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 204 × 193 cm (80.31 × 75.98 in) Current location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1671_G%C3%A9rard_de_Lairesse_-_Apollo_and_Aurora.jpg

Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1666) Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) Claude Lorrain (also Claude Gellée or Le Lorrain) (Lorraine, c. 1600 – Rome, 21 or 23 November 1682), a French artist of the Baroque era who was active in Italy, is admired for his achievements in landscape painting. http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Baroque/Claude+Lorrain/ Baroque (1600-1750)

Description Painting by the Chinese Ming Dynasty artist Chen Hongshou (1599-1652), leaf from an album of miscellaneous paintings. Date Early to mid 17th century, late Ming Dynasty Source http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/home/3garplnt.htm#plnts , Zhongguo meishu quanji, Huihua bian 8: Mingdai huihua, xia (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1988), pl. 170, p. 191. Author Chen Hongshou (1598–1652) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chen_Hongshou,_leaf_album_painting.jpg

Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez Date: 1647-1651 Author: Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RokebyVenus.jpg

Judgement of Paris (1638-1639) Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) Title: Judgement of Paris (Deutsch: Urteil des Paris) Year: 1638-1639 Technique: Deutsch: Öl auf Holz Dimensions: 199 × 379 cm The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Danaë (Rembrandt) Artist: Rembrandt (1606–1669) Title: Danae Year: 1636-1647 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 185 × 203 cm (72.83 × 79.92 in) Current location: Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Danaë is Rembrandt's painting from the collection of Pierre Crozat which from the 18th century resides in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. It depicts the character Danaë from Greek mythology, the mother of Perseus. She is presumably depicted as welcoming Zeus, who impregnated her in the form of a shower of gold. Given that this is one of Rembrandt's most magnificent paintings, it is not out of the question that he cherished it, but it also may have been difficult to sell because of its eight-by-ten-foot size. Although the artist's wife Saskia was the original model for Danaë, Rembrandt later changed the figure's face to that of his mistress Geertje Dircx. Vandalism On June 15, 1985 Rembrandt's painting was attacked by a man later judged insane; he thre...

Judgement of Paris (1632-1633) The Judgement of Paris is a story from Greek mythology, which was one of the events that led up to the Trojan War and (in slightly later versions of the story) to the foundation of Rome. Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) Title: Judgement of Paris (Deutsch: Urteil des Paris) Year: 1632-1633 Technique: Deutsch: Öl auf Holz Dimensions: 144,8 × 193,7 cm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rubens_-_Judgement_of_Paris.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Paul_Rubens_114.jpg The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.