Giuseppe Simoncelli and Luca Giordano 17th
Giuseppe Simoncelli and Luca Giordano 17th
Oil painting on canvas depicting "Acis and Galatea".
Work attributed to Giuseppe Simoncelli and Luca Giordano, published in V.Pacelli's volume "Pittura del Seicento nelle collezioni napoletane" Naples 2001 page 93 figure 144.
An episode taken from ancient Latin culture, and taken up again from the Renaissance onwards; in particular the myths it is inspired by are narrated in Ovid's Metamorphoses.