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The Loves of the Gods

The Loves of the Gods is a monumental fresco cycle, completed by the Bolognese artist Annibale Carracci and his studio, in the Farnese Gallery which is located in the west wing of the Palazzo Farnese, now the French Embassy, in Rome. The frescoes were greatly admired at the time, and were later considered to reflect a significant change in painting style away from sixteenth century Mannerism in anticipation of the development of Baroque and Classicism in Rome during the seventeenth century.

The Loves of the Gods

Annibale Carracci and studio

1597 (1597) / 1608 (1608)

Central row (from left to right in the accompanying image): Pan and Diana, The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, and Mercury and Paris.

Cajano, Elvira, and Settimi, Emanuela (eds.) (trans. and Victoria Constable) (2015), The Carracci Gallery: Its History and Restoration. Dijon: Éditions Faton ISBN 978-2-87844-211-3 OCLC 944266919.

John Adamson

Dempsey, Charles (1995). Annibale Carracci. The Farnese Gallery, Rome. New York: George Braziller.  978-0-8076-1316-0. OCLC 31969918.

ISBN

Martin, John Rupert (1965). The Farnese Gallery. Princeton University Press.  523316.

OCLC

A paraphrased copy decorates the ceiling of the Blue Drawing Room at in England.

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