Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Il Ritrovamento di Mosè (The Finding of Moses) 1560s? Oil on canvas, 77.5 x 134 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The biblical story of the Finding of Moses was popular in Venice. Tintoretto gives it…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) La Tempesta (The Tempest) c.1503–1509 Oil on canvas, 73 x 82 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Attested as part of Gabriele Vendramin’s collection by Marcantonio Michiel in 1530 and later in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century family inventories, The Tempest…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Maternité, dit aussi l’Enfant au sein / Madame Renoir et son fils Pierre (Maternity or Child at the Breast / Madame Renoir and her son Pierre) 1885 Oil on canvas, 92 x 72 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Maternité (Maternity: Madame Renoir and Son) c.1916 Terra cotta, 51.1 x 24.8 x 32.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Renoir‘s wife Aline had always been among his favorite models. Her fresh, full face and figure appeared…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Holy Family with St Anne 1640 Oil on panel, 41 x 34 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The Christian meaning of the painting has often been obliterated in favor of a purely secular interpretation: for example at…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux courses en province (At the Races in the Countryside) 1869 Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 55.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston At once merging and disrupting the traditional categories of landscape, genre scene, and family portrait,…
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Madonna della Scala (Madonna of the Stairs) c.1490 Marble bas-relief, 56.7 x 40.1 cm Casa Buonarroti, Firenze The Madonna della scala, or Madonna of the Stairs, of which no mention was made during Michelangelo’s lifetime, was cited for the…
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Lucca Madonna c.1437 Oil on panel, 65.5 × 149.5 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt No other work by Jan van Eyck conveys a sense of such immediate intimacy between the viewer and the figures depicted as this painting.…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Litta mid 1490s Tempera on canvas (handed over from panel), 42 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg This painting would seem to have been produced in Milan, where the artist moved in 1482. It was one…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Sette opere di misericordia (Seven Works of Mercy) 1606–1607 Oil on canvas, 390 x 260 cm Pio Monte della Misericordia, Napoli