Why it matters
Four figures hold hands and dance in a circle, in a painting commissioned by Giulio Rospigliosi, the later Pope Clement IX, who according to Bellori dictated its iconography. The identity of the figures is still uncertain.
Did you know?
- It was painted between about 1634 and 1636.
- The title first appears in a Wallace Collection catalogue of 1913.
- It gave its name to the novel cycle A Dance to the Music of Time.
Based on the Wikipedia article A Dance to the Music of Time (painting) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
