Sleeping Venus (Carracci) Explained
| Sleeping Venus |
| Year: | c. |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 190 |
| Width Metric: | 328 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| City: | Chantilly, Oise, France |
| Museum: | Musée Condé |
Sleeping Venus (also known as Sleeping Venus with Putti)[1] is a c. 1603 painting by Annibale Carracci held by the Musée Condé in Chantilly, Oise, France.[2] This oil painting measures 190x328cm.[3] It depicts Venus sleeping with her arm above her head as putti frolic around her.[4] Carracci painted Sleeping Venus for Odoardo Farnese.[5] Giovanni Battista Agucchi wrote an ekphrasis of this painting that Carlo Cesare Malvasia included in his book Life of the Carracci.[6] In The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Giovanni Pietro Bellori wrote a description of the painting that paraphrases Agucchi's ekphrasis without citation.[7]
Bibliography
- Book: The Moment of Caravaggio. Fried, Michael. Princeton University Press. 2010. 978-0691147017. registration. none.
- Lattuada, Riccardo. Artemisia in Naples and London: 1629-52. Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi. Keith Christiansen. Judith Walker Mann. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2001. 1588390063. none.
- Book: Malvasia's Life of the Carracci: Commentary and Translation. Summerscale, Anne. Penn State University Press. 2000. 0271044373. none.
- Book: Il Marmo Spirante: Sculpture and Experience in Seventeenth-Century Rome. van Gastel, Joris. 2013. Walter de Gruyter. 978-3050059488. none.
- Book: The Visible World: Samuel Van Hoogstraten's Art Theory and the Legitimation of Painting in the Dutch Golden Age. Weststeijn, Thijs. Amsterdam University Press. 2008. 978-9089640277. none.
- Book: The Artful Hermitage: The Palazzetto Farnese as a Counter-Reformation Diaeta. Witte, Arnold Alexander. L'Erma di Bretschneider. 2008. 978-8882654771. none.
- Book: Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects. Wohl, Hellmut. none.
Notes and References
- Weststeijn (2008), p. 157.
- Witte (2008), p. 35.
- Fried (2010), p. 161.
- Lattuada (2001), p. 372.
- van Gastel (2013), p. 156.
- Summerscale (2000), p. 49.
- Wohl (2005), p. 30.
