Tag: 1607

Cristo che porta la croce (c.1605-1607)

Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Cristo che porta la croce (Christ Carrying the Cross) c.1605–1607 Oil on canvas, 138.5 × 173 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna When Jesus carried his cross to Golgotha, “women ran behind, weeping and lamenting. And Jesus turned to them…

San Francesco sorretto dall’angelo (c.1607)

Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) San Francesco sorretto dall’angelo (Saint Francis supported by an Angel) c.1607 Oil on canvas, 126 x 98 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The subject of the angelic consolation of Saint Francis became popular in the second half of…

River Landscape (1607)

Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) River Landscape 1607 Oil on coppper, 20.7 x 32.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington People gather under trees next to an expansive river dotted with boats in this horizontal landscape painting. The people are tiny…

Venus and Cupid (c.1606-1611)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Cupid c.1606–1611 Oil on canvas, 137 x 111 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Rubens was the most outstanding of all Flemish painters, and a leading exponent of Baroque art. The Toilet of Venus is one of…

Cristo en la cruz (c.1600-1610)

El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo en la cruz (Christ on the Cross) c.1600–1610 Oil on canvas, 193 x 116 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland El Greco (Spanish for “the Greek”) was trained on his native island, Crete, as a painter of…

A Woodland Road with Travelers (1607)

Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) A Woodland Road with Travelers 1607 Oil on wood, 46 x 83.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jan, who was born shortly before the death of his famous father, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, advanced…

San Francisco medita sobre la muerte (1600-1610)

El Greco (1541-1614) San Francisco medita sobre la muerte (Saint Francis Meditating on Death) 1600–1610 Oil on canvas, 106 x 66 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Compare: El Greco (1541-1614) San Francisco y el hermano León meditando sobre la muerte…