Biblioteca Marciana, Venezia, Italy
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Offering for Zues, Painting most likely depicts Zeus sitting above a group of people, possibly gods and goddesses receiving a sacrifice of a cow on the ground and a boy holding a stake. There is a male presented from behind with cameos on the back of his calves, potentially Mercury. There is a crowned man holding a laurel crown and there is also a woman seen from behind holding a baby.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0423; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
The Music, Allegorical painting of a collection of women holding musical instruments on different height steps with a statue and plants., 1556-1557
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0417; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
The Music, Detail from The Music of one of the women playing a musical instrument.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0419; Original stamp identifier: Collezione Contini Bonadossi; Other stamp identifier: CV Stamp; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
The Music, Detail of one of the women from the larger painting The Music. This woman is holding a flower and looking down and away from the viewer.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0420; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
The Music, Detail painting of a woman playing a musical instrument with another women holding a flower, and a small child from the larger piece The Music.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0422; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
The Music, Detail painting of the Music, with two of the women where one of them playing an instrument and the other is holding a flower.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0418; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
The Music, Painting detail of a woman playing an instrument with a small child.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0421; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
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