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Aurora and Tithonus, c.1705 (oil on canvas)

Aurora and Tithonus, c.1705 (oil on canvas)
18th-century
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Aurora and Tithonus, c.1705 (oil on canvas)

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Ricci, Sebastiano (1658-1734) / Italian

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Royal Collection Trust

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oil on canvas

Date

1705 AD (C18th AD)

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203.2x128.4 cms

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Aurora, goddess of the dawn, fell in love with Tithonus, son of Laomedon and brother of Priam. She gained immortality for him but not youthfulness; hence he is shown here lying on the ground as an old man. Aurora floats above him, half naked on clouds, wearing a crown of roses and holding a chaplet of flowers in her upraised right hand. The three winged putti surrounding her hold a flaring torch, a basket of flowers and an urn; symbolising the dawn's light, its generative power and the dew. The slightly ponderous style of this work is suggestive of Ricci's work before his English visit, c. 1700-10. The subject of Aurora occurs in the main ceiling fresco by Ricci in the Palazzo Pitti, which is often wrongly identified as Venus and Adonis; that Aurora is the subject is shown by the attributes of the putti, which are the same as in this work. The painting was cleaned in 1972.

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