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Dressed in French fashion from the second decade of the nineteenth century and wearing a stylish floral diadem on her head, the duchess holds a piece of music in her hands, alluding to her love of music and singing. This is Goya´s last known portrait of an aristocratic lady. Its vibrant, rapid technique still recalls the affected, multicolored portraits from the eighteenth century, but its way of
Titian painted five images of Venus and music, but those five variations on a single theme were not made for the same client, nor intended to be exhibited together. Set in a villa, they show Venus reclining before a large window. At her feet, an organist (in the versions at the Museo del Prado and the Staatliche Museen in Berlin) or a lutenist (at the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the Fitzwi
This sculpture is relatively close to a Hellenistic original (c. 150 BC) in the Musei Vaticani. Abandoned by Theseus, whom she had helped to defeat the Minotaur, the Cretan princess Ariadne is shown sleeping on the beach at Naxos. She was found there by Dionysus, the future father of her children. This sculpted Ariadne wears a snake-shaped bracelet, leading to her identification in the past as Cle
