Hymn to Apollo

Here is a painting from the Ashmolean (thanks to Petrus Plancius for the reference)by Alessandro Allori:



While pursuing his own peerage, Barry Lyndon is forced to pay bribes in the form of ruinous prices for old master paintings. In the film version (I don't recall whether the detail is in the book), the one mentioned is by Alessandro Allori. I've never actually seen one of his before. This is not the one mentioned there, however, since barry's cooment of, "I particulalry like the artist's use of the colour blue." could hardly be applied here.


And a few more behind the cut by an artist I'd never heard of (probably you shouldn't look at them in front of your supervisor):

( William Etty )