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Pietro Aquila #106,871

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personItalian, 1650–1700

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Moses Striking the Rock

Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles, United States · Acquired 2018 · Accession M.2018.281.8 · Etching

Gift of Kenneth and Patricia Moss, in honor of Tobey and Allen Moss

Mythological characters, a seated nude male at center, with Romulus and Remus with the she-wolf at left, with other decorative figures, vases, and scenes, after the Assembly of the Gods vault frescoes (1624-25) by Giovanni Lanfranco in the Villa Borghese, Rome

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1953 · Accession 53.600.4831(8) · Etching

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953

Decorative figures, vases, and scenes, after the Assembly of the Gods vault frescoes (1624-25) by Giovanni Lanfranco in the Villa Borghese, Rome

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1953 · Accession 53.600.4831(6) · Etching

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953

Title page of a series of nine plates, after the Assembly of the Gods ceiling fresco (1624-25) by Giovanni Lanfranco in the Villa Borghese, Rome

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1953 · Accession 53.600.4831(1) · Engraving

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953

The sacrifice to Diana; men gathering with their spoils from the hunt to offer to the goddess; after Pietro da Cortona

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1951 · Accession 51.501.4294 · Etching

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Plate 4: Hercules resting, wrapped in the hide of the Nemean lion; to the left is the Erymanthian wild boar, the three-headed dog Cerberus, the hind of Ceryneia, and a harpy seated on a pedestal; from Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi Cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1951 · Accession 51.501.935 · Etching and engraving

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Plate 3: Hercules bearing the globe of Atlas, flanked by two reclining astronomers; from Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi Cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1951 · Accession 51.501.934 · Etching and engraving

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Plate 6: Galatea being carried off by a sea-creature, surrounded by other figures, putti and sea-monsters; from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1951 · Accession 51.501.3558 · Etching and engraving

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Plate 8: Detail of a wall from the Farnese gallery; at center, Venus reclining in bed with Cupid and Anchises; in a roundel at left, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus embracing; in roundel to the right, Pan wrestling with Cupid; from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1951 · Accession 51.501.3561 · Etching and engraving

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Plate 21: Four rows of details from the Farnese gallery; across the top, four small paintings illustrating Hercules and the hydra, Minerva and Prometheus, Arion riding a dolphin, and Hercules and Prometheus; below, two roundels at each side with the personifications of Charity and Justice, at center two paintings depicting Peleus and Thetis and two tritons fighting; below, three busts, and along the bottom, four classical sculptures standing; from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1951 · Accession 51.501.3573 · Etching and engraving

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Plate 16: Detail of a wall from the Farnese gallery; at bottom set in a niche, a classical sculpture of Bacchus holding Cupid; above, two small fresco paintings set inside frames, one depicting an emblem the other the fall of Icarus; to the left in a roundel, the personification of Fortitude holding a pillar and caressing a lion; from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1951 · Accession 51.501.3568 · Etching and engraving

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Title page to the series Galeriae Farnesianae Icones

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1951 · Accession 51.501.3552 · Etching and engraving

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

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