Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Angelo con corona di gigli (Angel with a crown of lilies) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 40 x 53 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is a fragment of Saint Joseph with the infant Christ, painted for the…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Sant’Elena, Santa Barbara, Sant’Andrea, San Macario, un altro santo e un devoto adorano la croce (Saint Helen, Barbara, Andrew, Macarius, another Saint and a Devote in Adoration of the Cross) 1560–1561 Oil on canvas, 275 x 165…
Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Madonna con il Bambino (Madonna and Child) 1448 Tempera on panel, 45 x 50 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Jacopo Bellini was the father of Gentile and Giovanni and a great painter in his own right, unfairly…
El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo abrazado a la cruz (Christ Carrying the Cross) c.1577–1587 Oil on canvas, 105 x 79 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During his long career in Spain, El Greco produced numerous paintings of Christ carrying…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Salomone e la regina di Saba (Solomon and the Queen of Sheba) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 58 x 205 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is one of seven canvases (P00386, P00388, P00389, P00393, P00394, P00395, P00396)…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ester e Assuero (Esther before Ahasuerus) 1552–1555 Oil on canvas, 59 x 203 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is one of seven canvases (P00386, P00388, P00389, P00393, P00394, P00395, P00396) in a group linked by the…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Vierge adorant l’hostie (The Virgin Adoring the Host) 1852 Oil on canvas, 40.3 x 32.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Repetition with variants of the Virgin painted in 1841 for the future…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Santa Lucía (Saint Lucy) c.1625–1630 Oil on canvas, 104.14 × 77 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Few images of saints show women as gorgeously attired as Francisco de Zurbarán‘s. His Saint Lucy portrays the young…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Allegoria del trionfo di Venere (An Allegory with Venus and Cupid) c.1545 Oil on wood, 146.1 x 116.2 cm National Gallery, London This is one of Bronzino’s most complex and enigmatic paintings. It contains a tangle of moral…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Belshazzar’s Feast c.1636–1638 Oil on canvas, 167.6 x 209.2 cm National Gallery, London Belshazzar’s Feast was painted somewhere between 1636 and 1638, when Rembrandt was about 30 years old. He had to make his way in Amsterdam, a…