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Portrait of Caterina Balbi Durazzo
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Rape of Proserpina
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The torture of Prometheus
The Triumph of Bacchus
The fame of the Balbi
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Putties
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Secretary
Mantel clock
The impiety of Niobe
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Night clock
Portrait of Caterina Balbi Durazzo
Crucified Christ
Charity of St. Lawrence
Sibyl Samia
application
Rape of Proserpina
Bacchus
Fight between Perseus and Phineus
Dead Christ mourned by two angels
Portrait of Giovanni Luca Durazzo
Rape of Proserpina
Adonis
Christ at the column
Dionysus
Bust of Flora
Jupiter and Astrea
The torture of Prometheus
The Triumph of Bacchus
The fame of the Balbi
Putties
Putties
Become a danzanti
Secretary
Mantel clock
The impiety of Niobe
Consol
Night clock

Rape of Proserpina

Valerio Castello

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Royal Palace Museum

Royal Palace Museum

Via Balbi, 10, Genoa

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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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Title: Rape of Proserpina

Author: Valerio Castello

Date: 1624 – 1659

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Royal Palace Museum

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