Peter Paul Rubens copied Titian’s Diana Discovering Callisto's Pregnancy decades before, at the request of Philip II of Spain. In his own interpretation of the lustful myth, Rubens puts the nymph in the center of this sensual painting that foreshadows the charged eroticism of his later art.
Diana discovering Callisto's Pregnancy, c.1630, Oil on CopperPeter Paul Rubens Flemish (1577 - 1640) |
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Peter Paul Rubens copied Titian’s Diana Discovering Callisto's Pregnancy decades before, at the request of Philip II of Spain. In his own interpretation of the lustful myth, Rubens puts the nymph in the center of this sensual painting that foreshadows the charged eroticism of his later art. |
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