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Antoon van Dyck - Portrait of Caterina Balbi Durazzo
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Antoon van Dyck - Crucified Christ
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Bernardo Strozzi, detto il Cappuccino - Charity of St. Lawrence
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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, detto Guercino - Sibyl Samia
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Bartolomeo Guidobono - application
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Valerio Castello - Rape of Proserpina
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Bartolomeo Guidobono - Bacchus
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Luca Giordano - Fight between Perseus and Phineus
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Gherardo delle Notti - Dead Christ mourned by two angels
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Jacob Ferdinand Voet - Portrait of Giovanni Luca Durazzo
Antoon van Dyck - Portrait of Caterina Balbi Durazzo
Antoon van Dyck - Crucified Christ
Bernardo Strozzi, detto il Cappuccino - Charity of St. Lawrence
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, detto Guercino - Sibyl Samia
Bartolomeo Guidobono - application
Valerio Castello - Rape of Proserpina
Bartolomeo Guidobono - Bacchus
Luca Giordano - Fight between Perseus and Phineus
Gherardo delle Notti - Dead Christ mourned by two angels
Jacob Ferdinand Voet - Portrait of Giovanni Luca Durazzo

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Proserpina, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, picks flowers in a meadow with her companions in the plain of Nisa in Sicily. The son of Cronus, Pluto, suddenly appears: Eros with his arrows made him fall in love, pushing him to kidnap the girl and drag her with his chariot to the afterlife where he intends to marry her. In the center of the picture, Pluto grabs the young goddess by the waist who, trying to free herself from the mighty grip, raises her right arm. The kidnapper, wrapped in red and white drapes from which emerge the muscular torso and right leg, has a crown on his head and a thick beard. The girl is instead wrapped in a blue cloth and a light silk shirt that leaves her breasts almost completely uncovered. Both are carried by a golden chariot pulled by two horses, which seem to be about to sink into a fiery chasm on the far right of the painting. The scene takes place in a clearing and four girls are spectators, two seated in the foreground and two on the left under the branches of a tree.

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