Rembrandt (1606-1669) Bathsheba at Her Bath 1654 Oil on canvas, 142 x 142 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Subject taken from the Bible (II Book of Samuel, the importance of the letter delivered to Bathsheba, the strong point of an…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) David and Jonathan 1642 Oil on panel, 73 x 61.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg After his wife’s death Rembrandt continued for a time to live in a grand style, assembling a collection of antiques in his Amsterdam home.…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Toilet of Bathsheba 1643 Oil on wood, 57.2 x 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rembrandt shows the biblical figure Bathsheba completely nude, lost in a moment of contemplation and unaware that she is being observed…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) David con la testa di Golia (David and Goliath) c.1600 Oil on canvas, 110.4 x 91.3 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Compared with the many other treatments of this well-known biblical episode, the scene depicted in the Prado picture is…