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Córdoba (España)

Córdoba in Art: Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Street of the Great Captain, Córdoba 1910 Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis     Births: • Góngora, Luis de (1561-1627) • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus minor (c.4 BC-65 AD) Deaths: • Góngora, Luis de (1561-1627) See also: • Andalucía |…

Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (c.1596-1597)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (Christ and the Samaritan Woman) c.1596–1597 Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 63.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Compare: Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo 1594–1595 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano    …

Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (1594-1595)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (Christ and the Samaritan Woman) 1594–1595 Oil on canvas, 170 × 225 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Francesco Sampieri, a resident of Bologna who had fallen on hard times, sold the family picture…

Paesaggio con la Fuga in Egitto (c.1604)

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…

Stag Hunt of Elector Frederick the Wise (1529)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Stag Hunt of Elector Frederick the Wise 1529 Oil on lime, 80 × 114 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Among Cranach’s duties as saxon court painter was to preserve important scenes of courtly life in his pictures.…

Crucifixion of Christ (c.1500-1501)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Crucifixion of Christ c.1500–1501 Oil on lime, 58.5 × 45 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The small-format panel, which was probably used for private devotion, dates from Cranach‘s first known creative period, which the artist spent in…