Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Circumcision 1661 Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 75 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633),…
Guercino (1591-1666) Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio (Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1623 Oil on copper, 72.5 x 65 cm National Gallery, London Mary and Joseph brought the infant Christ, forty days after his birth, to be presented in…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco (The Square of Saint Mark’s, Venice) 1742–1744 Oil on canvas, 114.6 x 153 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Dozens of men with several women and a few children gather in pairs or small groups…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Mlle V. en costume d’espada (Mademoiselle V. in the Costume of an Espada) 1862 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 127.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet depicted model Victorine Meurent (1844–1927) in the guise of a…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto del Cardinale Pietro Bembo (Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo) 1539–1540 Oil on canvas, 94.5 x 76.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) wears the red biretta and cape of a cardinal. At the time Titian painted…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di cardinale (Portrait of a Cardinal) 1510–1511 Oil on panel, 79 x 61 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Since the moment when it was decided that the present work is by Raphael but that the sitter is not…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di papa Giulio II (Portrait of Pope Julius II) 1511 Oil on poplar, 108.7 x 81 cm National Gallery, London This portrait of Pope Julius II (1443–1513) is usually dated to the one-and-a-half-year period during which he wore…
Raffaello (1483-1520) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) c.1506 Oil on panel, 28.5 x 21.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Raphael was born in Urbino, a central Italian duchy noted for its elegant gentility and Renaissance scholarship.…