Ink Artwork by Endre Penovác

Aleen Sabbagh

Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia

paolo uccello, saint george and the dragon

Tree-peony, 1980 Bassano in Teverina Cy Twombly © Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

The Birth of Venus, (Details), (c. 1485) by Sandro Botticelli (Italian, c. 1445 – 1510), tempera on canvas, 172.5 cm (67.9 in) x 278.5 cm (109.6 in), Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Flora and Zephyr (1730s) by Jacopo Amigoni, (1730s), oil on canvas, 213.4 x 147.3 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Les ombres de Francesca da Rimini et de Paolo Malatesta apparaissent à Dante et à Virgile (Ghosts of Paolo and Francesca Appear to Dante and Virgil), (Detail), (1855), by Ary Scheffer (Dutch-French, 1795 – 1858), oil on canvas, 171 cm (67.3 in) x 239 cm (94 in), Musée du Louvre

The Birth of Aphrodite (1904) by Norman Prescott-Davies (British, 1862 – 1915), signed and dated ‘1904’ (lower left), oil on canvas, 105.5 x 60cm (41½ x 23½ in.), Private Collection

The scene centers on the body of Patroclus, to which the eye is immediately drawn by its pale nakedness (Hector had stripped the slain hero of Achilles' armor). Achilles himself grasps the corpse in anguish. Hamilton has divided the onlookers by gender: to the left, Briseis and other women mourn; to the right, the Achaean leaders try in vain to console Achilles.

La Cruche cassée or The Broken Pitcher (1771), (detail), by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French 1725 – 1805), oil on canvas, 109 × 87 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris