Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) 1550–1555 Oil on wood, 75 x 57.5 cm National Gallery, London It has previously been thought that this portrait may represent one of the elder sons of Duke Cosimo…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Bacchus and Ariadne c.1680 Oil on canvas, 175.2 x 92.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (on loan from Mauritshuis, The Hague) Ovid described the following scene in his Metamorphoses: on the island of Naxos, Bacchus, the god of wine, chances upon…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’Émile Zola (Portrait of Émile Zola) 1868 Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Olympia 1863 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco 1628–1629 Museo…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco (The Drunkards, or The Triumph of Bacchus) 1628–1629 Oil on canvas, 165 x 225 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Documentation of payment received by Velázquez in July 1629 for an…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Bacco fanciullo (The Infant Bacchus) 1505–1510 Oil on panel transferred to panel, 50.1 x 39 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) & Workshop San Giovanni nel deserto, Bacco (St John in the Wilderness, Bacchus) c.1517–1520 Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 177 x 115 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris We do not know the circumstances of the creation of…