The art of the Pitti Palace : with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures (1903)
Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs, 1866- · Boston : L.C. Page · leaf 134
in its action and the breadth of its treatment.It was painted about 1625. It is entirely the workof Rubens, not laid in and painted largely by hispupils, as were many of his pictures. It exhibitsnearly all the characteristics of his style. The cen-tral figure. Mars, clad in armour, with sword… … O S3 Pi ^ 111 w •- Ztoc Dall of /IDars loi not falter, and the action of his whole body is for-ward to do the behest of the Fury, yet Mars turnshis head and looks regretfully back at the volup-tuous figure of Venus, who is clinging to him, onthe other side, — a beautiful nude, with all theplump yet…
Palazzo Pitti · Painting
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