Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Cristo crucificado, con un pintor (The Crucified Christ with a Painter) c.1650 Oil on canvas, 105 x 84 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A painter devoutly contemplates the almost-sculptural figure of Christ on the Cross, which stands…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Jeune orpheline au cimetière (Orphan Girl at the Cemetery) 1824 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 55 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Groundbreaking: 1294 Completed: 1385 Consecrated: 1443 Architects: Arnolfo di Cambio, Filippo Brunelleschi Style: Gothic, Renaissance, Gothic Revival Location: Piazza Santa Croce, 16 – 50122 Firenze Website: https://www.santacroceopera.it/ Burials: • Clary, Julie (1771-1845) • Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642) • Ghiberti, Lorenzo (1378-1455)…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Crucifixión (Crucifixion) c.1675 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 33 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This oil sketch helped Murillo to prepare a large painting that is today in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The artist’s…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Cristo crucificado (Christ Crucified) c.1632 Oil on canvas, 248 x 169 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Stylistically, this work appears to have been made in the early 1630s -soon after the artist returned from Italy– and most authors…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Cristo en la cruz (Christ on the Cross) 1631 Oil on canvas, 100 x 57 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Unlike the Christ Crucified (P1161) from the convent of San Plácido, whose authorship and extraordinary merits are…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Un enterrement à Ornans (A Burial at Ornans) 1849–1850 Oil on canvas, 315 x 668 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris At the end of the summer of 1849, Courbet began his first monumental painting. He wanted to make it…
Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) Ritratto di nobildonna (Portrait of a Noblewoman) c.1580 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 88.9 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Marriage Portrait of a Bolognese Noblewoman (Livia de’ Medici Bandini?) illustrates Lavinia Fontana’s ability to…
Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Autoritratto allo scrittoio (Self-Portrait in a Studio) 1579 Oil on copper, diam. 15.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Corpus Hypercubus (Crucifixion) 1954 Oil on canvas, 194.3 x 123.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dalí utilized his theory of “nuclear mysticism,” a fusion of Catholicism, mathematics, and science, to create this unusual interpretation of Christ’s…