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Perseus Liberating Andromeda

1657 · Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

mythological

The painting comes from the Palazzo Nani. The Tintorettoesque approach of the paintings from the Palazzo Nani reaches a peak of expressionistic tension in the daring perspective view of Andromeda, who appears to have been broken up into a series of disconnected segments.

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Perseus Liberating Andromeda

About the Artist

Francesco Maffei

1600 – 1660

Italian painter, active mainly in the Veneto. He had a refreshingly individualistic style, carrying on the great painterly tradition of Tintoretto and Bassano, reinforced by the example of Liss, Feti, and Strozzi, to which he added his own note of mysterious and sometimes bizarre fantasy. He painted mythological scenes and also allegorical portraits of local officials.

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