Flora
Artist: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, 1606–1669)
Original Dimensions: 39 3/8" x 36 1/8"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (ca. 1654) "Unlike many of his ambitious contemporaries, Rembrandt never traveled to Italy. Nonetheless, Italian art had a profound effect on him. In this depiction of the Roman goddess of spring, he responded to the sixteenth-century Venetian master Titian in particular. Still, the somber coloration and rough paint handling make this work unmistakably Rembrandt’s own, and the goddess may be based in part on a portrait of his late wife, Saskia, who had been the inspiration for many of his paintings." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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