Raffaello (1483-1520) Il sogno del cavaliere (Vision of a Knight) c.1504 Oil on poplar, 17.1 x 17.3 cm National Gallery, London This painting was inspired by a passage in the Punica, an epic poem by Silius Italicus (AD 25–101) recounting the…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Pala Colonna (Colonna Altarpiece) c.1504–1505 Oil and gold on wood, 242 x 169.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Raphael painted this altarpiece around 1504/5 for the Franciscan convent of Sant’Antonio in Perugia. It hung in a part of…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna in trono con santi (Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints) c.1504–1505 Tempera and gold on wood, 169.5 x 168.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is the main panel of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). The Colonna…
Raffaello (1483-1520) San Francesco d’Assisi (Saint Francis of Assisi) c.1504–1505 Oil on wood, 24 x 16 cm Dulwich Picture Gallery, London This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). The Colonna Altarpiece Raffaello (1483-1520) Pala…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Sant’Antonio da Padova (Saint Anthony of Padua) c.1504–1505 Oil on wood, 24 x 16 cm Dulwich Picture Gallery, London This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). The Colonna Altarpiece Raffaello (1483-1520) Pala Colonna…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La Belle Jardinière (Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist) c.1507–1508 Oil on panel, 122 x 80 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus 1523 Oil on wood, 73.6 x 51.4 cm National Gallery, London On loan from Longford Castle collection, © Longford Castle Collection Erasmus (1466/9 – 1536) was one of the most famous writers of his day…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Casa de Nazareth (Christ and the Virgin in the House at Nazareth) c.1640 Oil on canvas, 165 x 218.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Stories of Christ’s childhood and adolescence became increasingly popular during the Counter-Reformation…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’Émile Zola (Portrait of Émile Zola) 1868 Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Olympia 1863 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco 1628–1629 Museo…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La lecture (The Reading) c.1868 Oil on canvas, 61 x 73.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Koelin-Leenhoff, Léon | Manet, Suzanne