Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere che benda Amore (Venus Blindfolding Cupid) c.1560–1565 Oil on canvas, 118 x 185 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma In all likelihood, this painting entered the Borghese Collection in 1608, when it was given to Scipione Borghese by Cardinal Paolo Emilio…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Ritratto di dama con cagnolino (Portrait of a Woman with a Dog) c.1560–1570 Oil on canvas, 105 x 79 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Along with Titian and Tintoretto, Paolo Caliari — known as Veronese — was one of…
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Disegno per una statua equestre di Enrico II di Francia (Design for an Equestrian Statue of Henry II of France) 1559–1564 Chalk on paper, 13 x 12 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam In 1559 Catherine of Medici commissioned Michelangelo to create…
Bruegel, Pieter the Elder (c.1525-1569) The Adoration of the Kings 1564 Oil on oak, 112.1 × 83.9 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin sits in front of a dilapidated stable with the naked Christ Child on her knee. Three men offer…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Sacra Conversazione (Holy Conversation) c.1560–1570 Oil on canvas, 122.87 x 148.91 x 8.89 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
(1564–1642) Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei Works: • Discourse on Floating Bodies (English) • The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei (English) Galileo in Art: Sustermans, Justus (1597-1681) Ritratto di Galileo Galilei 1635 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Born February…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1560–1565 Oil on canvas, 124 x 96 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) La Fucina di Vulcano (The Forge of Vulcan) c.1564 Oil on copper, 38 x 28 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Francesco I de’ Medici (1541-1587)
(1564–1593) Works: • Accurs’d be he that first invented war! (English) • Edward the Second (English) • Hero and Leander and Other Poems (English) • Hero and Leander and Other Poems (Latin) • I Must Have Wanton Poets (English) •…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritrovamento del corpo di San Marco (Finding of the Body of Saint Mark) 1562–1566 Oil on canvas, 396 x 400 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano