Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Mosè salvato dalle acque (Moses Saved from the Waters) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 56 x 119 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is one of seven canvases (P00386, P00388, P00389, P00393, P00394, P00395, P00396) in a group…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Giuseppe e la moglie di Putifarre (Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 54 x 117 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Joseph is a handsome and virtuous slave falsely accused of rape by his master’s wife,…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Après la chasse (After the Hunt) c.1859 Oil on canvas, 236.2 x 186.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In style, scale, and composition, this work strongly resembles Courbet’s first hunting scene, The Quarry, a great…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Enfant à l’épée (Boy with a Sword) 1861 Oil on canvas, 131.1 x 93.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet’s stepson, Léon Koëlla-Leenhoff, recalled that he had posed for this picture in 1861, when he…
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…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Venere e Cupido (Venus and Cupid) c.1575–1580 Oil on wood, 143 x 226.50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier The Mannerist painter Allori designed a complex representation of Venus which owes much to the powerful figures of Michelangelo. The…
Bronzino (1503-1572) & Workshop Eleonora di Toledo col figlio Giovanni (Eleonora di Toledo and Her Son Giovanni) c.1545–1550 Oil on panel, 121.8 x 100 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit See also: • Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562) | Medici, Giovanni di Cosimo I…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo col figlio Giovanni (Eleonora di Toledo with Her Son Giovanni) 1545–1546 Oil on panel, 115 x 96 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562) | Medici, Giovanni di Cosimo I de’ (1543-1562)
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Giovanni de’ Medici bambino (Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child) 1545 Oil on panel, 58 x 45.4 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Medici, Giovanni di Cosimo I de’ (1543-1562)
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Don Garzia de’ Medici bambino (Portrait of Don Garzia de’ Medici as a Child) c.1551 Oil on panel, 43.5 x 30.5 cm Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi, Lucca See also: • Medici, Garzia de’ (1547-1562)