Guercino (1591-1666) Sibilla Cumana con putto (The Cumaean Sibyl with a Putto) 1651 Oil on canvas, 222 x 168.5 cm National Gallery, London The Cumaean Sibyl is one of 12 pagan sibyls, or prophetesses, said to have foretold the coming…
Guercino (1591-1666) Visione di sant’Agostino (Saint Augustine meditating on the Trinity) 1636 Oil on canvas, 185 x 166 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid According to this saint’s story, he was walking along the seaside meditating about the mystery of the…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Virgen Niña (The Young Virgin) c.1632–1633 Oil on canvas, 116.8 x 94 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York According to medieval legend, as a girl the Virgin Mary lived in the Temple in Jerusalem, where…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’Edmond Duranty (Portrait of Edmond Duranty) 1879 Gouache with pastel enlivenment on linen, 100 x 100.4 cm Burrell Collection, Glasgow See also: • Duranty, Edmond (1833-1880)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Isabella del Portogallo (Portrait of Isabella of Portugal) 1548 Oil on canvas, 117 cm x 98 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The portraits that Titian painted of Isabella (1503-1539), daughter of King Manuel of Portugal and wife…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Daniele Barbaro (Portrait of Daniele Barbaro) c.1545 Oil on canvas, 81 x 69 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Described by Lodovico Dolce as a gentleman of great merit and infinite goodness, Daniele Barbaro (1513-1570) was from a…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna col Bambino tra i santi Antonio da Padova e Rocco (Virgin and Child with St. Anthony of Padua and St Roch) c.1510 Oil on canvas, 92 x 133 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This work was first recorded in…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Annunciazione (Annunciation) c.1488–1490 Tempera on panel, h. 21 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze This panel is part of the predella of the of the San Marco Altarpiece. San Marco Altarpiece: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala di San Marco c.1488–1490 Galleria degli…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Sant’Agostino nello studio (St. Augustine in His Study) c.1488–1490 Tempera on panel, h. 21 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze This panel is part of the predella of the of the San Marco Altarpiece. San Marco Altarpiece: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) San Giovanni Evangelista a Patmos (St. John the Evangelist on Patmos) c.1488–1490 Tempera on panel, h. 21 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze This panel is part of the predella of the of the San Marco Altarpiece. San Marco Altarpiece:…