Sleeping Cupid
Caravaggio
1087 likes57 comments
Collection
Love & Romance in Renaissance & Baroque Painting
28 paintings exploring the theme of love & romance, from artists including Caravaggio, Sandro Botticelli, Michele Desubleo, Hieronymus Bosch and across institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery, Musée Du Louvre.
Venus And Mars
Sandro Botticelli
1456 likes126 comments
Venus And The Three Graces Presenting Gifts To A Young Woman
Sandro Botticelli
1457 likes127 comments
Allegory of Sacred and Profane Love
Michele Desubleo
1169 likes119 comments
Marriage Feast At Cana
Hieronymus Bosch
1190 likes80 comments
Venus and the Lute Player
Titian
1224 likes114 comments
Old Man Lighting a Pipe
Johann Carl Loth
1493 likes123 comments
Allegory of Venus and Cupid
Imitator of Titian
592 likes22 comments
Jupiter Rebuked by Venus
Abraham Janssens
1116 likes86 comments
The Capture of Samson
Peter Paul Rubens
941 likes11 comments
Venus and Cupid
Luca Cambiaso
1367 likes57 comments
Venus and Adonis
Titian
1225 likes115 comments
The Love Letter
Jacob Ochtervelt
990 likes140 comments
Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto
1284 likes134 comments
Venus and Adonis
Peter Paul Rubens
478 likes28 comments
Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese
1013 likes43 comments
Venus Disarming Mars, Drapery Study (verso)
Peter Paul Rubens
1336 likes26 comments
The Dirty Bride or the Marriage of Mopsus and Nisa
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
813 likes43 comments
Venus and Mars with Cupid and the Three Graces in a Landscape
Domenico Tintoretto
1455 likes45 comments
Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan
Johann Michael Rottmayr
523 likes53 comments
Panthea, Cyrus, and Araspas
Laurent de La Hyre
1458 likes28 comments
Cupid Chastised
Bartolomeo Manfredi
1597 likes27 comments
Venus and Cupid
Alessandro Turchi
1014 likes24 comments
The Temptation of Saint Jerome
Giorgio Vasari
684 likes14 comments
Kauterskill Clove, Catskill Mountains
Sanford Robinson Gifford
1512 likes82 comments
Icebound
John Henry Twachtman
1222 likes72 comments
Love of Winter
George Wesley Bellows
759 likes49 comments
The Bedroom
Vincent van Gogh
1579 likes129 comments
Why love & romance recurs across renaissance & baroque painting
The theme of love & romance returns again and again across two centuries of European painting. Renaissance and Baroque artists were working inside a culture where this subject carried specific weight: religious, civic, moral, erotic, political. The paintings collected here are not a random group — they are a record of how that subject was handled, contested, and reinvented by the painters who shaped Western art.
Each painting page on Paintale opens with the story of the work, then drills into the symbols a contemporary viewer would have read, the techniques the painter used to make those symbols feel inevitable, and the provenance trail that brought the painting from its first patron to its current museum wall.