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| Keywords: Domenico Corvi - Allegory of Painting - Walters 371011.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18748459 Creator Domenico Corvi This young woman with her palette and brushes is not seriously engaged in painting Contemplating her reflection in a mirror held by a winged cupid she is a personification of the self-conscious beauty that was then the goal of art A mask attached to her headdress with a golden chain symbolizes the potentially misleading view of reality that art can convey even when appearing to imitate nature Corvi's buoyant cheerful forms are close to those of French rococo art of the period Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 426 536-537 1764 Baroque Oil on canvas Painted surface cm 60 5 73 3 accession number 37 1011 20010 Royal Collections Turin 1764 by commission Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 526 by A R Mengs Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum 1931 by bequest Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Going for Baroque The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995-1996 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Domenico Corvi 1764 1764 paintings Painting palettes in art People with mirrors in art Females with mirrors 18th-century allegorical paintings | ||||
