Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino tra i santi Caterina e Tommaso (Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine and Thomas) 1527–1533 Oil on canvas, 117 x 152 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The motif of a gathering of saints around the Madonna,…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) L’Arcangelo Raffaele con Tobia, San Leonardo e il donatore (The Archangel Raphael with Tobias, St. Leonard and the Donor, Leonardo di Lorenzo Morelli) 1512 Oil on panel, 178 x 153 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Raphael accompanied young…
Pontormo (1494-1557) Madonna col Bambino, San Giuseppe e San Giovanni Battista (Madonna and Child with St Joseph and St John the Baptist) Early 1520s Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 120 x 98.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Among the celebrated…
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Christ et la Madeleine (Christ and Magdalene) c.1905 Marble, 102 x 77 x 70 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection Christ and the Magdalen is the only known work by Rodin on a religious subject. Various…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Sacra Famiglia (Holy Family) c.1546 Oil on poplar panel, 82 x 60 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Cristo che porta la croce (Christ Carrying the Cross) c.1605–1607 Oil on canvas, 138.5 × 173 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna When Jesus carried his cross to Golgotha, “women ran behind, weeping and lamenting. And Jesus turned to them…
Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) Christ Carrying the Cross c.1500 Oil on oak panel, 57.2 x 32 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna This is the inner left wing of a tryptych. The double-sided painted panel originally formed the left wing of a small altar.…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Cristo en la Cruz (Christ on the Cross) c.1630 Oil on canvas, 214 x 143.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The present canvas was unpublished until 1918 when Hugo Kehrer included it in his monograph on Zurbarán. At…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Christ on the Cross 1627 Oil on panel, 105.3 x 73 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection When he returned to Antwerp after his sojourn in Italy, Anton van Dyck painted several Crucifixions for different churches…
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Christ et la Madeleine (Christ and Magdalene) c.1894 Plaster, wood, fabric, 84.5 x 74 x 44.2 cm Musée Rodin, Paris © Agence photographique du musée Rodin – Jérome Manoukian This is one of the rare testimonies that…