The painting is listed in the Barberini family inventories from the 1640s through 1686, when it was listed in the property of the recently deceased Maffeo Barberini. It is soon listed in the 1688 inventory of Sacchetti, presumably Cardinal Urbano Sacchetti. By 1725, the work had made it way to the Campidoglio. The Bolognese art historian Carlo Cesare Malvasia attributed such a painting to Guido Reni. In Windsor Castle, there are two drawings signed by Reni, with dating of 1638 related to the figure of Polyphemus. Other research links this work to a lost canvas depicting Ariadne also by Reni.[2]
The painting depicts the scene from the Odyssey where the blinded Cyclops, in anger starts to gather boulders to toss at the ships of Odysseus in the distance. He perches in a diagonal to the canvas with a gray horizon. A more active depiction of the subject had been frescoed earlier in the Gallery of the Palazzo Farnese, at which Reni had worked under Annibale Carracci.
polyphemus, reni, polyphemus, canvas, painting, italian, baroque, painter, guido, reni, executed, 1639, 1640, housed, pinacoteca, capitoline, museum, rome, italy, polyphemus, polifemo, artistguido, reniyear1639, 1640mediumoil, canvasdimensions635, locationcapi. The Polyphemus is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Baroque painter Guido Reni executed in 1639 1640 and housed in the Pinacoteca of the Capitoline Museum in Rome Italy 1 Polyphemus Polifemo ArtistGuido ReniYear1639 1640MediumOil on canvasDimensions635 cm 520 cm 250 in 200 in LocationCapitoline Museum RomeDescription editThe painting is listed in the Barberini family inventories from the 1640s through 1686 when it was listed in the property of the recently deceased Maffeo Barberini It is soon listed in the 1688 inventory of Sacchetti presumably Cardinal Urbano Sacchetti By 1725 the work had made it way to the Campidoglio The Bolognese art historian Carlo Cesare Malvasia attributed such a painting to Guido Reni In Windsor Castle there are two drawings signed by Reni with dating of 1638 related to the figure of Polyphemus Other research links this work to a lost canvas depicting Ariadne also by Reni 2 The painting depicts the scene from the Odyssey where the blinded Cyclops in anger starts to gather boulders to toss at the ships of Odysseus in the distance He perches in a diagonal to the canvas with a gray horizon A more active depiction of the subject had been frescoed earlier in the Gallery of the Palazzo Farnese at which Reni had worked under Annibale Carracci References edit Polyphemus data Entry at Musei Capitolini Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Polyphemus Reni amp oldid 1219070316, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
