Guercino (1591-1666) Sant’Antonio da Padova (Saint Anthony of Padua) s.d. Etching on paper, 15.1 x 11.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Sant’Antonio da Padova (s.d.)
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Au Louvre: Musée des Antiques (1879-1880)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Au Louvre: Musée des Antiques (At the Louvre: Antiquities Museum) 1879–1880 Etching and drypoint on paper, 27 x 23.6 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Mary Cassatt is leaning elegantly on an umbrella looking at an Etruscan burial image in a…
Thackeray the Humourist and the Man of Letters (1864)
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863) Thackeray the Humourist and the Man of Letters 1864 Albumen print on paper, 18.5 x 12.5 x 25 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam This work belongs to Thackeray the humourist and the man of letters the story of his…
Mary Magdalene (1854)
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Mary Magdalene 1854 Oil on paper on panel, 31 × 35 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Head of a young woman. Together with SK-A-4173 forms a bust of Mary Magdalene. (RIJKS)
Maddalena penitente (c.1622-1628)
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Maddalena penitente (The Penitent Mary Magdalene) c.1622–1628 Oil on canvas, 163 × 208 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower right: HORATIVS GENE …FLORENTINVS Fully possessed of her physical beauty, the repentant sinner lies on the ground in…
Sacra Famiglia con Sant’Anna e san Giovannino (c.1540)
Bronzino (1503-1572) Sacra Famiglia con Sant’Anna e san Giovannino (Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John) c.1540 Oil on poplar panel, 126.8 x 101.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed on the stone under the left foot of the…
St Luke Drawing the Virgin (15th century)
Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) St Luke Drawing the Virgin 15th century Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 108.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The subject is taken from a 6th-century legend of Greek origin, according to which St Luke was the…
Madonna Conestabile (c.1504)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Conestabile (Conestabile Madonna) c.1504 Tempera on canvas (handed over from panel), 17.5 x 18 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Raphael entered the history of Italian art as the “genius of harmony”. The ideals of the High Renaissance were…
Madonna dell’Annunciazione (1340-1344)
Martini, Simone (c.1284-1344) Madonna dell’Annunciazione (Madonna from the Annunciation Scene) 1340–1344 Tempera on poplar panel, 30.5 x 21.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This painting was once the right-hand wing of a folding diptych showing the Annunciation. The left wing, with…
Cristo conduce gli Apostoli sul monte Tabor (1511-1512)
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Cristo conduce gli Apostoli sul monte Tabor (Christ Leading the Apostles to Mount Tabor) 1511–1512 Oil on canvas, 26.5 x 57.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg