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A satyr fills the wineglass of a fat, grotesque Silenus who smiles at another satyr seen from behind. This comic treatment of the classical myth derives from Ribera with whom Fracanzano worked from around 1630. Farina (2017) has related the figure of the satyr, who squeezes the grapes into the Silenus glass, with a drawing by the same author in a private New York collection.The canvas was in the c
These panels (P02838, P02839, P02840), along with a fourth one in a private collection, illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio´s Decameron. This is the story of Nastagio, a young man from Ravenna who was rejected by the daughter of Paolo Traversari and abandoned the city to settle on its outskirts. The third panel shows the guests´ reaction to
At the foot of several boulders that border a path, a group of three gypsies and a child wait while another gypsy tells his fortune to a peasant. On the other side of the path, a peasant couple contemplates the scene. The setting opens up in the centre towards distant mountains. The clouds appear to repeat the morphology of the boulders, the mountains and the tree branches that frame the scene on
Es una litografía de Cayetano Rodríguez (activo en Madrid entre 1829 y 1837) que reproduce el lienzo de Luca Giordano conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P00169). Esta estampa se entregaba con el cuadernillo LXXXIX e iba acompañado de un texto explicativo de José Musso y Valiente. Iba encuadernada en el tomo II de la serie dirigida por José de Madrazo, Colección litográfica de cuadros del r
Es una litografía de Cayetano Rodríguez (activo en Madrid entre 1829 y 1837) que reproduce el lienzo de Luca Giordano conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P00169). Esta estampa se entregaba con el cuadernillo LXXXIX e iba acompañado de un texto explicativo de José Musso y Valiente. Está encuadernada en el tomo II de la serie editada por el Real Establecimiento Litográfico, dirigida por José
