![Domenico Corvi - Allegory of Painting [1764] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_s6_wsEhJXnZMJWiEQmpeZcb4NP32-0u-kV7GM1sPyBlhK5RYFILExrmScchg-hoJdI_wvtJTSeSRwj8GN-0dC61-o65yT8_hRerin66_NN6z3hZLSwZLEuu6qzrwboleY=s0-d)
This young woman with her palette and brushes is not seriously engaged in painting. Contemplating her reflection in a mirror held by a winged cupid, she is a personification of the self-conscious beauty that was then the goal of art. A mask attached to her head-dress with a golden chain symbolises the potentially misleading view of reality that art can convey even when appearing to imitate nature. Corvi's (Lazio, Italy, 1721 – Lazio, 1803) buoyant, cheerful forms are close to those of French rococo art of the period.
[Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 73.3 cm]
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