Tiziano (c.1488-1576) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent Saint Jerome) 1556–1561 Oil on canvas, 235 x 125 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting was made for the altar of Santa Maria Nuova, in Venice, around the mid-1550s; it arrived in Brera…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Sant’Elena, Santa Barbara, Sant’Andrea, San Macario, un altro santo e un devoto adorano la croce (Saint Helen, Barbara, Andrew, Macarius, another Saint and a Devote in Adoration of the Cross) 1560–1561 Oil on canvas, 275 x 165…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Il Ritrovamento di Mosè (The Finding of Moses) 1560s? Oil on canvas, 77.5 x 134 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The biblical story of the Finding of Moses was popular in Venice. Tintoretto gives it…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Isabella de’ Medici Orsini con un cane (Isabella de’ Medici Orsini with a Dog) early 1560s Oil on panel, 88 × 71 cm Private collection, England See also: • Medici, Isabella de’ (1542-1576)
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Ritratto di Eleonora di Toledo, Duchessa di Firenze c.1560 Fresco Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze Inspired in: Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo e il figlio Francesco c.1549 Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Reale, Pisa See also:…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo c.1560 Oil on panel, 86.4 x 65.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562)
(1466–1560) Andrea Doria in Art: Bronzino (1503-1572) Andrea Doria come Nettuno c.1545–1546 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Born November 30 1466 Oneglia (Italia) Died November 25 1560 Genova (Italia) Occupation Admiral Condottiero
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae 1560–1565 Oil on canvas, 129.8 x 181.2 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The first Poesie presented to Prince Philip were Danaë (1553, The Wellington Collection) and Venus and Adonis (1554, Museo del Prado, P422), versions of other…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Head of an Old Farmer’s Wife c.1560–1565 Oil on oak, 22 x 18.4 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Such studies of facial expressions, known as tronies, served to capture a fleeting moment of powerful emotion and its…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Children’s Games 1560 Oil on oak panel, 116,4 × 160,3 × 1,2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna From a bird’s eye perspective – this was the only way Bruegel could render visible the impressive crowd of figures…