Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Giuliano de’ Medici c.1478–1480 Tempera on panel, 75.5 x 52.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the chest up, a man with pale, yellow-tinged skin is angled to our right with downcast eyes in this vertical portrait…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) San Gerolamo nello studio (Saint Jerome in his Study) c.1475 Oil on lime, 45.7 x 36.2 cm National Gallery, London Born in the fourth century, Saint Jerome was a scholar and a monk. His translation of the…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Nature morte aux homards, dit aussi Trophées de chasse et de pêche (Still-Life with Lobster, or Trophies of hunting and fishing) 1826–1827 Oil on canvas, 80.5 x 106.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Sagrada Familia del pajarito (Holy Family with a Bird) c.1650 Oil on canvas, 144 x 188 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A domestic scene filled with tenderness showing the Virgin Mary winding a skein of thread and…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) El aguador de Sevilla (The Waterseller of Seville) c.1623 Oil on canvas, 107.7 x 81.3 cm Wellington Museum, London See also: • Sevilla (España)
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga 1787–1788 Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Outfitted in a splendid red costume, the son of the count and countess of Altamira is shown between…
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) The Annunciation c.1434–1436 Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 90.2 x 34.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington The Annunciation described by Saint Luke is interpreted in terms of actuality in this painting, which was probably once…