Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) La Sagrada Familia (The Holy Family) 1659 Oil on canvas, 121.5 x 97 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest At the very end of his career, Zurbarán abandoned the tenebroso manner of painting that had characterised his…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 120 x 102 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest “There is one man who makes easy what we have always been told is impossible; and that is Paolo…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) La cena di Emmaus (The Supper at Emmaus) c.1542 Oil on canvas, 156 x 212 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest According to the Gospel of Saint Luke, two of Christ’s disciples, while on their way to Emmaus, met…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ercole scaccia il Fauno dal letto di Onfale (Hercules Expelling the Faun from Omphale’s Bed) c.1585 Oil on canvas, 112 × 106 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest As Ovid’s Fasti (Roman calendar) relates, Hercules and Omphale once exchanged…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) San Giacomo il Maggiore alla conquista dei mori (Saint James the Greater Conquering the Moors) c.1749–1750 Oil on canvas, 317 × 163 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest “It is as if God created Tiepolo for us. He follows…