
River Landscape with Mercury Abducting Psyche
Simon Novellanus

Baroque Painter · Active 1600 – 1600
Simon Novellanus is among the painters whose work defines the Baroque era. Paintale holds 1 of Novellanus's works in its collection, spanning themes of landscape.
Where to see the work: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The paintings by Simon Novellanus gathered on Paintale span landscape, a set of concerns typical of an artist working through the Baroque period. Taken as a group, they show a consistent visual language rather than a series of unrelated commissions.
Museums now holding Simon Novellanus's work include The Metropolitan Museum of Art. On each painting's page here, we go beyond the caption to cover subject, symbolism, technique, and provenance — the context a modern viewer needs to see what the original audience saw.
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