Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Studio di testa di un giovane uomo (Study Head of a Young Man) 1587–1588 Oil on canvas, 35.5 × 26.5 cm Private collection
Studio di testa di un giovane uomo (1587-1588)
Month: September 2020
Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (1594-1595)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (Christ and the Samaritan Woman) 1594–1595 Oil on canvas, 170 × 225 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Francesco Sampieri, a resident of Bologna who had fallen on hard times, sold the family picture…
Autoritratto con altre figure (c.1593)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Autoritratto con altre figure (Self-Portrait with Other Figures) c.1593 Oil on canvas, 60 × 48 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painter portrays himself in the mirror with three men who have been variously identified: the eldest may…
Pietà con i santi Chiara, Francesco e Maria Maddalena (1585)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Pietà con i santi Chiara, Francesco e Maria Maddalena (Pietà with Saints Clare, Francis and Mary Magdalene) 1585 Oil on canvas, 378.3 × 239.7 cm Galleria Nazionale, Parma
Ritratto di una giovane ragazza (c.1589-1590)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Ritratto di una giovane ragazza (Portrait of a Young Girl) c.1589–1590 Oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 37.5 x 27.5 cm Private collection
Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (c.1604)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) c.1604 Oil on canvas, diameter 82.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Self-Portrait (1623)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Self-Portrait 1623 Oil on panel, 85.7 x 62.2 x 0.5 cm Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace, London This painting seems to have been something of a face-saver. In 1621 Rubens supplied Lord Danvers with a Lion Hunt (now lost),…
Agonia nell’orto (c.1596-1597)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Agonia nell’orto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1596–1597 Oil on panel, 39.1 x 30.3 cm Royal Collection, Windsor Castle Against a dark background the figure of Christ kneels, his head turned right towards the figure of an angel in…
Madonna del Silenzio (c.1599-1600)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Madonna del Silenzio (Madonna and Sleeping Child with the Infant St John the Baptist) c.1599–1600 Oil on canvas, 51.2 x 68.4 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London
Testa d’uomo di profilo (c.1588-1895)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Testa d’uomo di profilo (Head of a Man in Profile) c.1588–1595 Oil on canvas, 44.8 x 32.1 cm Royal Collection, Windsor Castle This vivid head is precisely the type of study from everyday life practised so passionately by…