Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Gypsy Girl (La Bohémienne) c.1626 Oil on canvas, 58 x 52 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The title of “Bohemian”, inseparable from the fame of the painting, was given to her upon her entry into the Louvre (cat. Reiset).…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) La Sagrada Familia (The Holy Family) 1659 Oil on canvas, 121.5 x 97 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest At the very end of his career, Zurbarán abandoned the tenebroso manner of painting that had characterised his…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ercole scaccia il Fauno dal letto di Onfale (Hercules Expelling the Faun from Omphale’s Bed) c.1585 Oil on canvas, 112 × 106 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest As Ovid’s Fasti (Roman calendar) relates, Hercules and Omphale once exchanged…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) The Allegory of Constancy c.1685 Oil on canvas, 126 x 123 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest The painter and significant art theorist was greatly influenced by the French neoclassicists, which later earned him the nickname of…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La Giustizia disarmata (Justice Disarmed) c.1670 Oil on canvas, 168 x 286 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La lotta tra Ercole e Nesso (The Fight of Hercules and Nessus) c.1660–1665 Oil on canvas, 137.5 x 167.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Bronzino (1503-1572) Venere, Cupido e la gelosia (Venus, Cupid and Jealousy) c.1550 Oil on poplar, 175.5 × 142 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest ‘The human eye cannot see like this,’ stated Wölfflin, the authoritative art historian, of Bronzino’s art. And…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Phryné devant l’aréopage (Phryné before the Areopagus) 1861 Oil on canvas, 80 x 128 cm Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Compare: Nadar (1820-1910) Femme nue debout 1860–1861 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Famed for his portraits of writers, artists, and…
Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757) Diana 1740–1746 Pastel on blue paper, 67 x 52 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Pair: Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757) Apollo 1740–1746 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Satiressa con tamburello (Female Satyr with Tambourine) c.1730 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 95.3 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Compare: Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Satiressa con una brocca in mano c.1730 Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena