In "Christ at the sea of Galilee" Alessandro Magnasco painted a scene from the episode where Christ's disciples are on a boat caught in a terrible storm. Jesus walked to them on the water to reassure them and invited Peter to join him.
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Canaletto - Regatta on the Canale Grande
François Boucher’s "Leda and the Swan" is a Rococo painting with an erotic twist which explores the mythological theme of Leda being seduced by Zeus turned into a swan.
Giovanni Paolo Panini’s "Architectural Capriccio With a Preacher in Roman Ruins" stages an imaginary sermon inside a grand, invented city of antiquity. Towering Corinthian columns, broken archways, and fragments of entablature frame the scene like a stone theater.
Giovanni Paolo Panini - Roman capriccio- the Colosseum and other monuments