Michelangelo (1475-1564) Madonna di Manchester (Manchester Madonna: The Virgin and Child with Saint John and Angels) c.1494 Tempera on wood, 104.5 × 77 cm National Gallery, London This picture – known as ‘The Manchester Madonna’ since 1857, when it was exhibited in the…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Princess Sabra 1865 Oil on canvas, 107.2 x 61.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Inscription: S. initials D.b.g.: E.B.J. 1865-6 This work is part of a decorative set commissioned from Burne-Jones by the watercolourist Miles Birket Foster (1825-1899) and…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Saint Jerome and the Lion Probably 1st half of the 16th century Oil on panel, 37 x 27 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Guercino (1591-1666) Sant’Antonio da Padova (Saint Anthony of Padua) s.d. Etching on paper, 15.1 x 11.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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, 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…
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)
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…
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…
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…