Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Sei poeti toscani (Six Tuscan Poets) 1544 Oil on panel, 132.08 x 131.13 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis See also: • Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321) | Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375) | Cavalcanti, Guido (c.1255-1300) | Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374)
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Fray Miguel Fernández Flores (Friar Miguel Fernández Flores) 1815 Oil on canvas, 100.2 x 84.1 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester See also: • Fernández Flores, Miguel (1764-1822)
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Frans Post c.1655 Oil on panel, 27.5 x 23 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Hals is best known for the life-like quality he gave to his subjects through innovative composition and spirited brushwork. The subject of this portrait is…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse, portret van Madame Roulin (La Berceuse, Portrait of Madame Roulin) 1888–1889 Oil on canvas, 92 × 72.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (F 504, JH 1665) She who rocks the cradle In Arles, Van Gogh befriended the…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Young Man and Woman in an Inn 1623 Oil on canvas, 105.4 x 79.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted with the characteristically bold brushwork that Hals had learned from Flemish painting, this picture provides a…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) The Laughing Cavalier 1624 Oil on canvas, 83 x 67.3 cm Wallace Collection, London A highly gifted portraitist, Frans Hals had a supreme ability to characterise his sitters and make them appear lifelike. This exuberant portrait of a…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) San Filippo Neri (Saint Philip Neri) c.1703 Oil on canvas, 124 × 98 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Portrait of a Married Couple c.1617–1618 Oil on canvas, 112 × 131 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Nadar (1820-1910) Honoré Daumier 1856–1858 Salted paper print, 24.4 x 17.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This portrait of the renowned caricaturist and painter Honoré Daumier was possibly not a commissioned work, but the result of a voluntary engagement with a…
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Le Désespoir de Pierrot (Pierrot’s Despair) c.1910 Oil on canvas, 66.3 x 84.2 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo