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The composition, which shows the three Theological Virtues, was probably made with a painted composition in mind, though no such work survives. As Pérez Sánchez has argued, the style ind [+]
The drawing belongs to a collection, mostly by Cambiaso´s workshop, formerly preserved in an old album. According to Renaissance tradition, a painter needed to prove himself as an inventor of figure c [+]
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Although sadly much corroded, the drawing is of high quality and the handling compatible with Cambiaso´s autograph drawings. Fortitude is one of the three Theological Virtues, whose attributes are a c [+]
As related in the Homeric story, Queen Niobe, the wife of Amphion, King of Thebes, was the mother of six sons and six daughters, of whom she was greatly proud. She deemed herself superior to Latona, w [+]
Hercules used his bow when firing at the Stymphalian birds, the destruction of which was the sixth of his Labors. These voracious creatures ate human flesh, had brazen claws, wings and beaks and used [+]
