Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Lavanda dei piedi (Washing of the Feet) 1548–1549 Oil on canvas, 210 x 533 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This scene from the New Testament (John 13, 1-20) shows the moment just before the Last Supper, when…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo col figlio (Eleonora of Toledo and Her Son) c.1545–1550 Oil on panel, 121.6 x 100 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Portraiture was an important political tool for the ducal Medici family. Often sent abroad…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Sisifo (Sisyphus) 1548–1549 Oil on canvas, 237 x 216 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The literary source for the Furies is Ovid‘s Metamorphoses (IV, 447-464) and Virgil‘s Aeneid (VI, 457-8), which recounts the eternal sufferings in Hades of Tityus,…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Giovanni Federico I di Sassonia (John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony) 1548 Oil on canvas, 129 cm x 93 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid John Frederick I of Saxony (Torgau, 30 June 1503–Jena, 3 March 1554), Duke of Saxony-Wittenberg…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Carlo V nella battaglia di Mühlberg (Charles V at the Battle of Mühlberg) 1548 Oil on canvas, 335 cm x 283 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This portrait commemorates Charles V’s victory over the Schmalkaldic League at Mühlberg on…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Isabella del Portogallo (Portrait of Isabella of Portugal) 1548 Oil on canvas, 117 cm x 98 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The portraits that Titian painted of Isabella (1503-1539), daughter of King Manuel of Portugal and wife…
Rulers: • Carlos I, King of Spain (1516-1556) • Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1558) • Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence (1537-1569) • Edward VI, King of England and Ireland (1547-1553) • Henri II, King of France (1547-1559) • John Frederick I, Duke of Saxony (1547-1554) •…