Paolo Veronese (alternatively: Paolo Caliari Veronese)
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Atalanta and Meleager, Painting depicts the Greek mythological story of Atalanta and the Wild Boar. Atalanta was raised as a great virgin huntress and as such joined competitions that were usually exclusively male. During the Calydonian Boar Hunt, she was the first person to draw blood and when Meleager dealt the deathblow to the animal, he presented the head to Atalanta. In this depiction Atalanta is found in the center of a cluster of men with one kneeling before her with the head of the boar seen by onlookers. The scene takes place in an outdoor landscape with various trees and plant life., 1560
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0411.1; 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
Diana and Actaeon, Detail image from the larger Diana and Actaeon painting, focus on Diane and the nymphs in the river. There are eight nude women pictured, it is unclear which is Diane but some all have their hair back and some are wearing jewelry and some have fabric., 1560
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0415; 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
Diana and Actaeon, Detail image from the larger painting Diana and Actaeon. Detail is of Actaeon watching Diane and the nymphs bath, he is lounging on a half wall with his hounds on the edge of the river., 1560
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0416; 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
Diana and Actaeon, Painting depicts the scene from Roman and Greek mythology where Diane is seen bathing with a group of nymphs by Actaeon. In the story, when Actaeon stumbles across the bathing women the nymphs attempt to conceal the chaste Diane and splash Actaeon. The water turned Actaeon into a deer and when he fled his hunting hounds hunt and kill him. The nymphs and Diane are depicted naked in a river, two hounds are seen at the river’s edge and Actaeon is seen perching on a small wall where he can fully witness the scene. A set of ruins appears behind the bathing women in this outdoor landscape scene., 1560
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0411.2; 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
Geometry and Arithmetic, Painting depicts the allegory of Geometry and Arithmetic. Two main subjects are seen on elevated steps, one is seen reading a book standing, one is depicted from behind.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0424; 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
Mount Olympus, Painting depicts Mount Olympus in an outdoor landscape of trees and rocks but also clouds. Various gods and goddesses are depicted in a group and a pair., 1560
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0412.1; 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
Mt. Olympus, Image detail from the larger painting of Mt. Olympus. Painting of a cluster of gods and goddesses lounging around clouds. All subjects are nude with draping of fabric. There is a god with a helmet that may be Mercury, 1560
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0413; 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, 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
Venus and Jupiter, Detail image from the larger Venus and Jupiter from the background courtyard. There are people found in various scenes around the fountain, around a table further into the structure or on the roof, 1560
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0414; 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
Venus and Jupiter, Painting depicts an outdoor courtyard where Venus and Jupiter are embracing. There are people placed throughout the courtyard. To the left of the two is a crow with jewelry on a fountain., 1560
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VERS.0412.2; 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
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