Tag: 1620

Self-Portrait (c.1620-1621)

Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Self-Portrait c.1620–1621 Oil on canvas, 119.7 x 87.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Lifting a languid hand to his chin, the young Van Dyck presents himself as an aristocrat, excluding any signs of his trade…

Pietà (early 1620s)

Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Pietà (The Lamentation over the Dead Christ) early 1620s Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 181 cm National Gallery, London Ribera captures the moment when Christ’s lifeless body is laid out after it has been brought down from the…

Ester e Assuero (1620s)

Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Ester e Assuero (Esther before Ahasuerus) 1620s Oil on canvas, 208.3 × 273.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The most famous woman painter of the seventeenth century, Gentileschi worked in Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples. This…

Portrait of Isabella Brant (c.1620-1625)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of Isabella Brant c.1620–1625 Oil on wood, 53 x 46 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Isabella Brant was Rubens’s first wife. He painted her many times in many different ways before she died at the…