http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/browse?tags=467.1999&sort_field=added&sort_dir=a&output=atom <![CDATA[Blanton Museum of Art Collections]]> 2024-03-28T07:49:07-05:00 Omeka http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2882 <![CDATA[An Allegory with Venus and Time]]> 2017-06-16T17:01:42-05:00

Dublin Core

Creator

Domenico Piola

Title

An Allegory with Venus and Time

Date Created

circa 1680

Spatial Coverage

154.1 cm x 113.6 cm (60 11/16 in. x 44 3/4 in.)

Identifier

467.1999

Medium

Oil on canvas

Description

In this allegory, Time, with his hourglass, presents Venus, the goddess of love, with a mature rose, as if to remind her that earthly love is as fleeting as a rose’s bloom. In response, Venus reveals her higher identity as a symbol of enduring spiritual love and divine beauty, a concept that evolved from the rediscovery of the writings of Plato and other ancient philosophers during the Renaissance. Venus here has already disarmed her son Cupid, the god of erotic love, by breaking his bow’s string. He is now unable to enflame uncontrollable desires in people and gods by shooting arrows into them. Domenico Piola, the leading artist in Genoa in the second half of the seventeenth century, painted many ceiling frescoes for churches and palaces. Paintings predating 1684 like this one are especially rare, since French naval bombardments in May of that year destroyed most of Genoa, including Piola’s house and studio.

Rights Holder

The Suida-Manning Collection

Date

Genoa, Italy, 1627 - 1703, Genoa, Italy

Type

painting

Has Version

http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/plugins/Dropbox/files/object_images/ART New/467.1999.zif

Requires

16470
]]>