Saturday, February 14, 2026

Darknesses

Michele Desubleo (Michele Fiammingo)
Cain slaying Abel
before 1676
oil on canvas
Palazzo Corsini, Rome


Johann Liss
Abel mourned by Adam and Eve
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Pietro Sigismondi
Samson and Delilah
1606
oil on canvas
Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca

Francesco Furini
Judith and Holofernes
ca. 1630-35
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Camillo Berlinghieri
St Sebastian tended by Holy Women
ca. 1632-35
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Dirck van Baburen
St Sebastian succoured by St Irene
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Francesco Maffei
Perseus beheading Medusa
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Head of Medusa
ca. 1600-1650
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Bernardino Mei
Orestes slaying Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
1654
oil on canvas
Collezioni della Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena

Johann Liss
Apollo and Marsyas
ca. 1625-30
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Mattia Preti (il Cavalier Calabrese)
Flight of Aeneas from Troy
ca. 1635
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Michele Desubleo (Michele Fiammingo)
Death of Cleopatra
before 1676
oil on canvas
Palazzo Corsini, Rome

Francesco Rustici (il Rustichino)
Olindo and Sofronia
(scene from Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata)
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
private collection

Donato Mascagni (Fra Arsenio)
Ugolino and his Sons in the Famine Prison
ca. 1611
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Padovanino (Alessandro Varotari)
Orpheus losing Eurydice
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Laurent de La Hyre
Dead Adonis
ca. 1628-30
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist working in Naples
Venus discovering the dead Adonis
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Speaks Bito's tomb to whomsoever reads:
"If from Torone to Amphipolis you go,
Give Nicagoras this message: his one son
Died in storm, in early winter, before sunrise."

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by W.G. Shepherd