Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of a young merchant 1541 Oil on oak, 46.5 × 34.8 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Holbein created a new style of portraiture that is characterized by monumentality paired with extreme painterly precision. The young businessman…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) The Virgin and Child with a Monkey c.1498 Engraving, 19.05 x 12.07 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Albrecht Dürer’s prints are characterized by nearly ethereal transitions from dark to light. From the fineness of the monkey’s wiry fur…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Tentazioni di sant’Antonio Abate (Christ appearing to Saint Anthony Abbot during his Temptation) c.1598 Oil on copper, 49.5 x 34.4 cm National Gallery, London A bearded man in a hair robe is being violently threatened by a horde…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Femme assise au livre (Seated Woman with a Book) c.1910 Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 24.1 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le petit déjeuner (Breakfast) 1920 Oil on canvas, 64.1 x 73.8 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia The artist’s model Antoinette Arnoud twists in her chair and glances from her book, lost in melancholic thoughts or daydreams. Similar images…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La lecture (Reading) c.1892 Oil on canvas, 55 x 65.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Conversation in a Park (Gainsborough and his wife?) c.1746–1748 Oil on canvas, 73 × 68 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris An early example of a conversation piece by Gainsborough. Often compared with Gainsborough‘s drawn portrait, from the same…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) The Temptation of Saint Anthony 1594 Oil on copper, 25.2 × 35.2 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La educación de la Virgen (The Education of the Virgin) c.1617–1618 Oil on canvas, 168 × 136 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Daniele Barbaro 1545 Oil on canvas, 85.8 x 71.5 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Daniele Barbaro c.1545 Museo del Prado, Madrid See also: • Barbaro, Daniele (1513-1570)