Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Santa Casilda (Saint Casilda) c.1630–1635 Oil on canvas, 171 x 107 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Images of saints depicted alone, holding their attributes and looking out of the picture space were among the most popular compositions within…
Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) Testa di donna (Head of a woman, eyes lowered, slightly turned to the left) s.d. Metalpoint, pen and brush in black and gray ink heightened with white, on orange-red prepared paper, 26.7 x 22.4 cm Musée…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Light of The World 1851–1856 Oil on canvas, 49.8 x 26.1 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Painting in the shape of an arched doorway. Standing at a wooden doorway with rusted hinges and overgrown with ivy and…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Madame Charles Gounod 1859 Graphite on ivory wove paper, 25.6 x 20.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Gounod, Charles (1818-1893) | Zimmerman, Anna (1829-1907)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Renoir c.1910 Oil on canvas, 80 x 64 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Charigot, Aline (1859-1915)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Juliette Courbet 1860 Oil on canvas, 127 x 100.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis See also: • Courbet, Juliette (1831-1915)
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni 1489–1490 Mixed media on panel, 77 x 49 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This superb panel is a fine example of fifteenth-century Florentine portraiture. Artists of the time followed classical dictates: body proportions were idealised while…
Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757) Giovane donna con un pappagallo (A Young Lady with a Parrot) c.1730 Pastel on paper, mounted on laminated paper board, 60 x 50 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Rosalba Carriera is renowned for the distinction she brought…
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Apoteosi di sant’Orsola e delle sue compagne (Apotheosis of Saint Ursula and her companions) 1491 Oil on canvas, 481 x 335 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia This is the nineth of nine paintings in the cycle of the Legend of…
Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1445–1450 Tempera on poplar panel, 83 x 57 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the hips up, a woman to our left wears a sapphire-blue robe over a petal-pink dress,…