This painting, one of Bor’s finest works, dates from about 1640. Its subject and its relationship to a similar picture in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, have been debated, but it is likely that the two canvases were painted as a pair and depict the complementary stories of the disillisioned Medea and Cydippe with Acontius’s apple (see fig
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Chefs-d’Å“uvre de la peinture européenne," June 23–November
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436208
Giovanni de Lutero, known as Dosso Dossi, painted this landscape with figures soon after becoming court artist to Duke Alfonso I d’Este of Ferrara, where the artist arrived by July 1513. The subject is generally given as the Three Ages of Man, analogous to Titian’s well-known painting of the subject (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh), with „youth“ represented by the youngsters who watch the amorous couple, who in turn represent „maturity“, while the two men in the background symbolize „old age“
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Chefs-d’Å“uvre de la peinture européenne," June 23–November
