MAFFEI, Francesco
(b. ca. 1600, Vicenza, d. 1660, Vicenza)

Perseus Liberating Andromeda

1657-58
Oil on canvas, 200 x 145 cm
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

The painting comes from the Palazzo Nani. The Tintorettoesque approach of the paintings from the Palazzo Nani reaches a peak of expressionistic tension in the daring perspective view of Andromeda, who appears to have been broken up into a series of disconnected segments.