CROSATO, Giovanni Battista
(b. ca. 1685, Treviso, d. 1758, Venezia)

Apelles Making a Portrait of the Courtesan Campaspe (detail)

1756-58
Fresco
Villa Marcello, Levada di Piombino Dese

So beautiful is Campaspe that even the little white dog notices and touches her lightly with its paw.