Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Madonna del Silenzio (Madonna and Sleeping Child with the Infant St John the Baptist) c.1599–1600 Oil on canvas, 51.2 x 68.4 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Paesaggio con la Fuga in Egitto (Landscape with the Flight into Egypt) c.1604 Oil on canvas, 122 x 230 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma It is the leading element of the so-called “Aldobrandini Lunettes”, thanks to which the…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Sileno che raccoglie l’uva (Silenus gathering Grapes) 1597–1600 Oil and egg on wood, 54.5 x 88.5 cm National Gallery, London Using an animal skin, two laughing satyrs with pointed ears and short tails – although without the usual hairy…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Madonna col Bambino, Santa Lucia e San Giovannino (The Madonna and Child with Saint Lucy and the Young Saint John the Baptist) c.1587–1588 Oil on panel, 78.8 x 62.7 cm Private collection
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Due bambini molestano un gatto (Two Children Teasing a Cat) c.1587–1588 Oil on canvas, 66 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York With expressions of cruel delight, two children torment a cat with the pincers of…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna delle ciliegie (Cherry Madonna) c.1516–1518 Oil transferred from canvas to wood, 81.6 × 100.2 × 1.1 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna On the left St. Joseph, on the right St. John the Boy and St. Zacharias. Similar to the…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna del Prato (Madonna of the meadow) 1505–1506 Oil on poplar, 113 × 88.3 × 3.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscription on the hem of Mary’s dress with the year M.d.V. (perhaps also M.D.V.I. to be read) The group,…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Family of Jan Brueghel the Elder 1613–1615 Oil on panel, 95.2 x 125.1 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London See also: • Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) | Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Bacchus 1638–1640 Oil on canvas, 191 x 161.3 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Bacchanalia was a favourite theme in Rubens‘s work, although Bacchus himself was rarely the subject of his paintings. He saw the subject as reflecting…