Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Adoration of the Shepherds 1646 Oil on canvas, 97 x 71.3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The so-called ‘Passion Cycle’ was painted for the stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. The…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Holy Family with St Anne 1640 Oil on panel, 41 x 34 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The Christian meaning of the painting has often been obliterated in favor of a purely secular interpretation: for example at…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Circumcision 1661 Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 75 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633),…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Holy Family 1645 Oil on canvas, 117 x 91 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg One of the key subjects for Rembrandt was the Holy Family that perhaps for him embodied the lost dream of a happy home life. In…
Guercino (1591-1666) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) 1624 Oil on canvas, diameter 68.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called il Guercino) created Rest on the Flight to Egypt as a…
Guercino (1591-1666) Visione di santa Chiara (Vision of St Clare) 1615–1621 Oil on canvas, 50 x 37.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Guercino (1591-1666) Madonna del cardellino (Madonna and Child with an Escaped Goldfinch) early 1630s Red chalk on paper, 26.3 x 20.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Guercino (1591-1666) Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio (Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1623 Oil on copper, 72.5 x 65 cm National Gallery, London Mary and Joseph brought the infant Christ, forty days after his birth, to be presented in…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) c.1490 Tempera on panel, 88.9 x 55.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Botticelli oversaw an active workshop that produced multiple versions of the same composition. The central figures in this painting are…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 57.7 x 43.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Detail.