Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) Death and the Miser c.1485–1490 Oil on panel, 93 x 31 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A naked man with ghostly white skin sits upright in a canopied bed set in a narrow room in this tall,…
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Morte di Cleopatra (Death of Cleopatra) c.1525 Oil on canvas, 98.5 x 76.5 cm Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La barca di Caronte e il ratto di Proserpina (Mythological Scene with the Rape of Proserpine) early 1680s Oil on canvas, 121.6 x 193 cm National Gallery, London This modello, or detailed oil study, is one of a group of…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Storia di Lucrezia (The Story of Lucretia) c.1478–1480 Tempera on wood, 42 x 126 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Incoronazione della Vergine (Coronation of the Virgin) c.1434–1435 Tempera on poplar, 209 x 206 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The miter-shaped cutout of the painted surface at the top is original. Main register of an altarpiece from which elements…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix c.1864–1870 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 66 cm Tate Britain, London Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix 1871–1872 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321) | Portinari, Beatrice (c.1266-1290) | Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Dantis Amor (Dante’s Love) 1860 Oil on mahogany, 74.9 x 81.3 cm Tate Britain, London «L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.» (Love that moves the sun and the other stars). Dante, Paradiso, XXXIII, v. 145. See also:…
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Marat Assassiné (Marat Assassinated) 1793 Oil on canvas, 165 x 128 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels See also: • Marat, Jean-Paul (1743-1793)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Bruto e Arrunte (Death of consul L. J. Brutus in a duel with Arruns) c.1728–1730 Oil on canvas, 383 × 182 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching) 1892 Oil on jute mounted on canvas, 73.02 x 92.39 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1891, after many years without commercial success in France, Paul Gauguin traveled to the…