Aug 2
Allegory of the Creation
Artist: Jacopo Zucchi (Italian, 1540/1541 - 1595/1596)
Date: c. 1585
Medium: Oil on copper
Collection: Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
Description
The subject is a kind of hymn to creation, the source for which has been identified as the Psalms. The painting depicts creation, desired by God, who is portrayed as an old man with a beard, holding a book inscribed with the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, the alpha and the omega, in a reference to Eternity, the ‘beginning’ and ‘end’ of all things.
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