Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Pietà 1563 Oil on canvas, 108 x 170 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting was intended to decorate a lunette in the courtyard of the Procuratie di San Marco in Venice and, according to documents, was…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Pietà c.1460 Tempera on panel, 86 x 107 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The panel, dated to the years between 1465 and 1470, marks an evident emancipation of the artist from the influence of Andrea Mantegna, to…
El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo abrazado a la cruz (Christ Carrying the Cross) c.1577–1587 Oil on canvas, 105 x 79 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During his long career in Spain, El Greco produced numerous paintings of Christ carrying…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Renard dans la neige (Fox in the Snow) 1860 Oil on canvas, 85.73 x 127.95 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Courbet’s Fox in the Snow depicts the animal mauling its prey, the rodent’s blood spilling onto…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Escena de disciplinantes (Scene of Flagellants) c.1808–1812 Oil on panel, 51 x 57 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Premier deuil (The First Mourning) 1888 Oil on canvas, 203 x 250 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires During the last quarter of the 19th Century, every month of May would bring extensive accounts of…
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…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Lucretia 1666 Oil on canvas, 110.17 x 92.28 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Rembrandt tells the story of Lucretia through her solemn and saddened gaze, in the traces of blood on her gown, and the dagger in…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Raising of the Cross c.1633 Oil on canvas, 96.2 x 72.2 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 six…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Deposition of Christ from the Cross 1632–1633 Oil on West Indian cedar (Cedrela odorata), 89.4 x 65.2 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The so-called ‘Passion Cycle’ was painted for the stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Prince…