Image: National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina, Buenos Aires
The National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires has featured Sebastiano Ricci’s ‘Aurora y Thyton’ as its work of the day, drawing attention to a large-format painting currently displayed in the museum’s gallery devoted to Mannerist and Baroque movements.
The museum described the work as an oil painting on canvas by the Venetian painter Sebastiano Ricci. Its post, published on August 24, 2026, identified the painting through the institution’s ‘La Obra del Día’ feature, a work-focused format used to present individual pieces from its displays.
‘Aurora y Thyton’ depicts the myth of an eternal love between the goddess of dawn and a mortal man. The museum’s description characterizes the contrast between the divine figure and her human beloved as central to the subject represented in the painting.
The work is presented in the section dedicated to Mannerist and Baroque movements. The available announcement does not provide additional information about the painting’s date, provenance, dimensions, acquisition history or conservation status.
Ricci was identified by the museum as a Venetian painter. No further biographical information or curatorial commentary was included in the work-of-the-day announcement, which focused on the painting’s display location, medium, authorship and mythological subject.
