Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) George Moore 1879 Pastel on canvas, 55.2 x 35.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This pastel, executed in one sitting, depicts the Irish critic and novelist George Moore. He used it as the frontispiece for…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Acteur tragique, Rouvière dans le rôle d’Hamlet (The Tragic Actor, Rouvière as Hamlet) 1866 Oil on canvas, 187.2 x 108.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A bearded man with light skin, wearing a black costume and…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le torero mort (The Dead Toreador) probably 1864 Oil on canvas, 75.9 x 153.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington From a low perspective, we look at a man wearing black and white, lying on the ground…
Copy after Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Isabella de’ Medici (Portrait of Isabella de Medici) late 17th century Oil on limewood panel, 61 x 45.4 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) was born in Florence and first trained…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Giovanni de’ Medici 1550–1551 Oil on panel, 66.2 x 52.8 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford See also: • Medici, Giovanni di Cosimo I de’ (1543-1562)
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) 1530s Oil on wood, 95.6 x 74.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The identity of this arrogant young man is unknown, but he must have belonged to…
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…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Ritratto di giovane, Antonio Broccardo? (Portrait of a Young Man, The Broccardo Portrait) c.1508–1510 Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 54 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Even today it is difficult to define what the advent of Giorgione…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Ritratto d’uomo Terris (Portrait of a Man) 1506 Oil on panel, 30.16 cm x 25.72 cm San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Felipe IV, orante (Philip IV in prayer) c.1655 Oil on canvas, 209 x 147 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This pair of portraits (P001220 and P001222) combines several aspects of Spanish portraiture of the Baroque period. In…