Villa Giulia - JS Sargent

Villa Giulia - JS SargentA print of John Singer Sargent's Villa Giulia a watercolour study of the 16th century Roman villa by one of the great painters of the Belle poque, treated in the loose, luminous wash that defined Sargent's late work. The Villa Giulia was built on the northern edge of Rome between 1551 and 1555 as the summer retreat of Pope Julius III, to designs by Vignola, Ammannati and Vasari with advice from Michelangelo. Its sunken nymphaeum a three tiered

The companion front view: Pantheon (Exterior)

A print of Pollux of the Dioscuri — one of the Spartan twin brothers

This photograph isolates the face and upper serpents

In mythological narrative panels he appears with Bellerophon

His prints — after Goltzius

This black and white photograph captures the statue of Theseus

one of the three canonical orders of Greek architecture alongside the older Doric and the later

He carried Helen off to Troy

Instead he ran it down into its cave

The affair of Venus and Mars is one of the most-told episodes of Greco-Roman myth

remains a question scholars have argued about since antiquity

the twin-serpent caduceus — made him one of the most iconographically recognisable figures of the Greek pantheon