Io2.0003_Balestra

Io2.0003_Balestra

OGCMA, s.v. "Io"

Antonio Balestra (1666-1740), "Juno Places the Eyes of Argus on the Tail of Her Peacock," oil on canvas, 185 x 149 cm, Verona, in a private collection. —— Cf. Io2.0004_Balestra (1713)

Included by Ghio and Baccheschi (cited below) with this explication: "...The picture could be one of five canvases painted for the Senator Stefano Conti of Lucca in 1704... " (Ghio & Baccheschi, 216)

Ghio, Lilli and Edi Baccheschi. 1989. Antonio Balestra. Estratto da "I Pittori Bergamaschi", raccolta di studi a cura della Banca Popolare di Bergamo. Bergamo: Poligrafiche Bolis. — Item 113, pp 215-6 and 151 illustration.

The image at right is derived from Ghio & Baccheschi.

A dramatic Baroque painting depicting Argus Panoptes slain, with Juno and putti plucking his hundred eyes.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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