Description Of Artwork

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canterbury

            page of manuscript with beginning of the Manciple’s Tale

            c. 1390s

            Hengwrt Manuscript, folio 108v

            National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

            (from Baker)

coronis

            “Apollo Slaying Coronis”

            Domenichino. G.B. Viola, Alessandro Fortuna(?)

            1616-1618   

            fresco, 199.4 x 89.5 cm

            National Gallery, London

Domenichino may not have actually painted the frescoes himself, but instead created the chalk or ink studies and his assistants painted the frescoes: in this case, the landscape is attributed to Viola, and the figures may have been painted by Fortuna.

            (Spear, plate 192)

cyparissus

            “The Transformation of Cyparissus”

            Domenichino, G. B. Viola, and Alessandro Fortuna(?)

            1616-1618

            fresco; upper portion: approx. 90 cm wide; lower portion: 120 x 88.3 cm

            upper portion: Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati; lower portion: National Gallery, London

The upper portion of this fresco remains in its original place (Villa Aldobrandini). 

            (Spear, plates 188-189)

hyacinthus

            “Apollo and Hyacinthus”

            Domenichino

            1603-1604

            Palazzo Farnese, Rome

            fresco, 124 x 267cm

            (Spear, plate 12)