CORTONA, Pietro da
(b. 1596, Cortona, d. 1669, Roma)

Lunette painting

1642
Fresco
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

The picture shows one of the lunettes in the Sala di Venere depicting famous exempla from antiquity that illustrate the successes to be gained through virtue and self-denial. It depicts Antiochus.




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