Campin, Robert (c.1378-1444) The Annunciation 1420–1425 Oil on oak panel, 76 x 70 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The event is set in a gothic temple, alluding to the New Law that replaces the old one, represented by the Romanesque tower in…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Flight into Egypt (Flucht nach Ägypten) 1509 Woodcut, 28.8 x 19.4 cm Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) The Lamentation over the Dead Christ c.1640 Oil on canvas, 115.5 × 207.5 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp Christ’s dead body is laid out across the entrance to a cave, his head resting on Mary’s…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegoria della battaglia di Lepanto (Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto) 1571 Oil on canvas, 170 x 137 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Apoteosi di sant’Orsola e delle sue compagne (Apotheosis of Saint Ursula and her companions) 1491 Oil on canvas, 481 x 335 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia This is the nineth of nine paintings in the cycle of the Legend of…
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Sogno di Sant’Orsola (The Dream of Saint Ursula) c.1495 Oil on canvas, 273 x 567 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia This is the fifth of nine paintings in the cycle of the Legend of St. Ursula (Storie di sant’Orsola).…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Pietà 1575–1576 Oil on canvas, 353 x 347 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Detail with Titian’s self-portrait as an old man kneeling before Christ.
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adorazione di Gesù Bambino (Adoration of the Christ Child) c.1506 Oil on canvas, 46 x 39 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo 1624 Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 73.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Van Dyck was in Palermo, Sicily, when a plague broke out and the city was quarantined.…
Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) Death and the Miser c.1485–1490 Oil on panel, 93 x 31 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A naked man with ghostly white skin sits upright in a canopied bed set in a narrow room in this tall,…