Apollo plays a viola da gamba in the left, the three nude Graces offer this woman a flower of beauty, and Athena holds a book in front of her in the painting depicting her "Education."
Apollo plays a viola da gamba in the left, the three nude Graces offer this woman a flower of beauty, and Athena holds a book in front of her in the painting depicting her "Education." Another scene shows her holding a classical statue and wearing an ornate war helmet as she is portrayed as the goddess Bellona. She does not appear in the first painting of her cycle, which shows Jupiter and Juno watching the Fates spin her destiny, but she is shown in her series' final painting, The Triumph of Truth, holding out a wreath of reconciliation to Louis XIII. In perhaps the most memorable of the paintings, Neptune and a group of the artist's characteristically fleshy sea nymphs guide her boat as she makes her landing at Marseilles. FTP, name this Italian-born French queen, the subject of an extravagant cycle of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens.
Apollo plays a viola da gamba in the left, the three nude Graces offer this woman a flower of beauty, and Athena holds a book in front of her in the painting depicting her "Education."
{Marie de Medici}