El Greco (1541-1614) Aparición de la Virgen y el Niño a San Jacinto (Apparition of the Virgin and Child to Saint Hyacinth) c.1605–1610 Oil on canvas, 158.4 x 98.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Hyacinth, a Polish Dominican priest born in 1185,…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Extensive Landscape With Travellers on a Country Road c.1608–1610 Oil on copper, 33.6 x 46.4 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
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…
(1608–1674) Works: • Areopagitica (English) • An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton (English) • L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas (English) • Le Paradis Perdu (French) • Milton’s Comus (English) • Minor Poems (English) •…
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…
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…
El Greco (1541-1614) Visión del Apocalipsis (The Vision of Saint John) c.1608–1614 Oil on canvas, 222.3 x 193 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The painting is a fragment from a large altarpiece commissioned for the church of the…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Girolamo scrivente (Saint Jerome Writing) 1607–1608 Oil on canvas, 117 x 157 cm St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Sepellimento di Santa Lucia (Burial of Saint Lucy) 1608 Oil on canvas, 408 x 300 cm Santa Lucia alla Badia, Siracusa
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ritratto di Alof de Wignacourt (Alof de Wignacourt and his Page) c.1608 Oil on canvas, 194 x 134 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Wignacourt, Alof de (1547-1622)