Tag: FLORA
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01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, footnotes # 16
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, VENICE 1696 – 1770 MADRID PORTRAIT OF A LADY AS FLORA Oil on canvas 88.3 x 69.9 cm.; 34 3/4 x 27 1/2 in Private collection This is one of only a very small number of paintings of beautiful women in fancy dress by Tiepolo to have survived. Though they occupy only a…
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01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 15
Willem Drost, AMSTERDAM 1633 – 1659 FLORA Oil on canvas 39 by 33 in.; 99 by 84 cm. Private collection William Drost’s Flora was painted during the artist’s brief stay in Venice during the 1650s and has hitherto remained unknown to scholars. The work should be considered one of Drost’s very best paintings, comparable to his undisputed…