Artist: Jacopo Carucci
Date: 1545
Museum: Palace of Capodimonte (Naples, Italy)
Technique: Tempera On Panel
Distinct groups of men and women are painted in monochrome in a linear arrangement, recalling ancient pagan sculpture. At the center, a ram and a panther are sacrificed on an altar. Its inscription translates as, “To You, the One God” or, “To You, the Sun God.” The bald man wearing black in the background is Cosimo I de’ Medici, while his mother is the older woman wearing a headdress.This mysterious painting was likely designed for the private quarters of Cosimo I’s wife, Eleonora di Toledo, in the Medici palace in Florence (the Palazzo Vecchio). The palace’s profuse decoration, completed by Giorgio Vasari, portrays the Medici duke in various biblical and mythological guises. This painting was one of the final works of the artist Pontormo, whose disquieting style suits the strange subject.
Artist |
|
|---|---|
Download |
|
Permissions |
Free for non commercial use. See below. |
 |
This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. However - you may not use this image for commercial purposes and you may not alter the image or remove the watermark. This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.
|
Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may
not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the
