La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) Les Larmes de saint Pierre (The Tears of Saint Peter / Saint Peter Repentant) 1645 Oil on canvas, 114 x 95 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland During Jesus’s arrest on the night of the Last Supper,…
Guercino (1591-1666) Agonia nell’orto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1640–1646 Oil on canvas, 232.1 x 162.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) La Crucifixion (The Crucifixion) 1644–1646 Oil on canvas, 148.59 x 218.44 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This Crucifixion dramatically illustrates the moment of Christ’s death when the sky went dark, graves were opened, and the bodies of the saved rose…
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Diana Resting c.1640–1650 Oil on canvas, 123 x 159 cm Petit Palais, Paris Cézanne, who once said, “It is grotesque to imagine that we grow like a fungus, when we have all the generations behind us. Why not…
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Susanna Crouching c.1640–1645 Chalk with watercolor, 28.7 x 41.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Family Group in a Landscape 1645–1648 Oil on canvas, 202 x 285 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Frans Hals is widely considered the most brilliant exponent of Dutch portraiture, a genre that enjoyed immense popularity in the seventeenth century.…
Sustermans, Justus (1597-1681) Portrait of a Lady c.1635–1645 Oil on canvas, 53.3 x 43.8 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Portrait of Justus Sustermans 1630–1632 and 1645–1646 Etching, 252 x 167 mm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam See also: • Sustermans, Justus (1597-1681)
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Santa Teresa de Jesús (Saint Teresa of Jesus) c.1645 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 104.4 cm Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia
(1580–1645) Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas Works: • Historia de la vida del Buscón (Spanish) • Los Sueños, Volume I (Spanish) • Los Sueños, Volume II (Spanish) • Pablo de Segovia (English) • The Visions of Dom Francisco…