Galatea (Raphael)
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The Triumph of Galatea is a fresco completed around 1512 by the Italian painter Raphael for the Villa Farnesina in Rome.
Galatea Raphael
Acis and Galatea
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Acis and Galatea are characters from Greek mythology later associated together in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The episode tells of the love between the mortal Acis and the Nereid Galatea; when the jealous C
Galatea (Raphael)
…of the building, a series which was inspired by the "Stanzas on the Tournament" of the poet Angelo Poliziano. In Greek mythology, the beautiful Nereid Galatea had fallen in love with the peasant shepherd Acis. Her consort, one-eyed giant Polyphemus, after chancing upon the two lovers together, lobbed an…
The Loves of Acis and Galatea by Alexandre Charles Guillemot (1827)
An 1822 French Empire mantel clock depicting Galatea. The design on its frieze is based on Rafael's fresco.
Acis and Galatea hiding from Polyphemus, by Édouard Zier (1877)
Acis, by Philip Galle (1586)