# The Kiss

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## Artwork

- Artist: [HAYEZ, Francesco](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hayez-francesco-r1dbbbcf7c4bac8>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 112 x 88 cm

## Commentary

This canvas has quite rightly become one of the symbols of Italian Romanticism. It sprang from the sentimental and melodramatic strand of medieval costume drama that Verdi so beautifully captured in his operas.

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- [Carolina Zucchi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hayez-francesco-r1dbbbcf7c4bac8/carolina-zucchi-rf9668749c4ad13>)
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- [Flowers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hayez-francesco-r1dbbbcf7c4bac8/flowers-r81930c8568b840>)
- [Meditation on the History of Italy](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hayez-francesco-r1dbbbcf7c4bac8/meditation-on-the-history-of-italy-r5050f177234d93>)
- [Mercury Gives Paris the Apple of Discord](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hayez-francesco-r1dbbbcf7c4bac8/mercury-gives-paris-the-apple-of-discord-r131383c53a1154>)
- [Odalisque](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hayez-francesco-r1dbbbcf7c4bac8/odalisque-r8a1934bbd03c11>)
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- [Portrait of Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hayez-francesco-r1dbbbcf7c4bac8/portrait-of-gian-giacomo-poldi-pezzoli-detail-r537d9f9dcc98c3>)
- [Portrait of Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hayez-francesco-r1dbbbcf7c4bac8/portrait-of-gian-giacomo-poldi-pezzoli-r43faf0736fb050>)
- [Portrait of Signora Matilde Branca](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hayez-francesco-r1dbbbcf7c4bac8/portrait-of-signora-matilde-branca-r1e14ae9f7ac77a>)
- [Portrait of Teresa Barri Stampa](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hayez-francesco-r1dbbbcf7c4bac8/portrait-of-teresa-barri-stampa-rb96924d6ab3705>)
- [Rinaldo and Armida](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hayez-francesco-r1dbbbcf7c4bac8/rinaldo-and-armida-r6388b898bda594>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)