Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegorie dell’amore: Il disinganno (Four Allegories of Love: Scorn) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 186.6 x 188.5 cm National Gallery, London This is one of a series of four paintings by Veronese that concern the trials and rewards of…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Tentazioni di San Gerolamo (Temptations of St. Jerome) 1541 Oil on panel, 170 x 122.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze In accordance with a literary tradition focusing on his period of solitude in the desert, St Jerome has…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna col Bambino e due sante (Madonna and Child with Two Saints) c.1493–1495 Oil on poplar wood, 86.5 × 63 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna “PETRUS PERUSINUS PINXIT” reads the signature placed bottom left in this half-length composition. Perugino‘s handling of…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Jupiter et Antiope (Jupiter and Antiope) 1851 Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 43.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman 1505 Spruce, 33 × 24.5 × 2.7 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at the top in the middle with the monogram, dat. 1505 We don’t know who the charming young lady is,…
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Lady with purple scarf c.1895 Oil on canvas, 67 × 41 × 2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 242.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Rabbit Hunt 1560 Etching, 22.1 x 29 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In this etching considered the artist’s only autograph print, Pieter Bruegel the Elder replicated the graphic vocabulary of dots and dashes of…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Hunting near Hartenfels Castle 1540 Oil on wood transferred to masonite, 116.8 x 170.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The Protestant rulers of Saxony commissioned this animated hunt scene, set near their residence seen in…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Le Confessionnal (The Confessional) 1867 Watercolor on paper, 26.4 x 14.4 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore