Pietro da Cortona The Rape of the Sabine
taste of
Women
the seventeenth century
To the
1627-1629 oil on canvas, 110'/2X
167%
Roman
collectors
after the first quarter of
carefully balanced,
rigorous approach of the classical painters in.
Pinacoteca Capitolina,
Guido Reni and Nicolas Poussin) (especially
(280.5 x 426 cm)
Rome
Pietro da Cortona adds
The Roman career of Pietro da Cortona was
theatrical expressiveness.
a
dynamic form of
furthered bv the support
The
of the Sacchetti family,
in
one of the most important
by their exaggeratedly
seventeenth -centurv
twisted poses and bold
patrician houses. This
gestures.
canvas also results from
references to works such
the Sacchetti family's
as Apollo
patronage of the Tuscan
the Abduction of Persephone clearly display the artist's
painter,
and more
figures are seen
mid-action, animated
The obvious and Daphne and
with Gianlorenzo
generally indicates the new-
links
trends emerging in the
Bernini.