jupitersterrain four

the milky complexion, full face, and curvaceous figure. Her virginal state distances her from any ill intent; she reveals her nudity with total frankness and lack of prudery, like a novice to the world of romance

The treatment of the female nude is particularly delicate here; the modeling of the body is very sensual, as it is constructed entirely of light emanating from the left of the painting

The refined drawing, glowing skin, gentle touch, and luminous palette attest to the artist's maturity
pose, the sweep of her arms, the wrist falling heavily against a plinth, the fullness of her drapery, the perfection of the shadows, and the scale of the actual sheet give her a quiet majesty



their drama tumbles in the viewer's lap In short, they anticipate a modern demand for immediacy and transparency—even of artifice itself No wonder it appears so often as a whipping boy, as a cause of the French Revolution. Fashionable women stand for the seasons, while the naked variety sprawl on cloudsTheir round, smiling faces lack for nothing, except perhaps something to do

cavort equisite with still life that grows coarse and slippery around the edges

surface has been brought to a high state of polish, setting off the pearly flesh tones the sumptuous fabrics

A fetching shepherdess, clad in ivory-colored silk, lacking all trace of dirt or labor, is asleep and vulnerable to the mischief of a boy, tickling her cheek with a piece of straw


she was said to have ruined him in spite of appearing not only stupid 
but dumb in the literal sense 



18.41, 22.12.12. 



and did Persephone look round ...
at the fire and brimstone of the lower 
world infernal regions suffering in a place 
of torment of everlasting limbo chained to the 
abyss