European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection The Metamorphosis of Alcyone c. 1495-1500 Vittore Carpaccio, Italian (active Venice), first documented 1490, died 1523/26 Oil on panel * Gallery 208, European Art 1100-1500, second floor Cat. 173 John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 |
LabelAfter learning that her husband had died at sea, Alcyone threw herself into the sea and drowned. The gods took pity on the couple and changed them into kingfishers. John G. Johnson acquired this panel from the heirs of the great English critic John Ruskin, whose writing on Venetian art and architecture had a great influence on nineteenth-century connoisseurs and travelers. Social Tags [?]coastal [x] deer [x] doves [x] landscape [x] love [x] man [x] marriage [x] metamorphoses [x] mythology [x] ocean [x] ovid [x] rabbit [x] renaissance [x] spalliera [x] woman [x] [Add Your Own Tags]* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit. |
