Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Paradise Landscape with the Animals Entering Noah’s Ark c.1613–1615 Oil on oak, 61 × 90.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Fuga in Egitto (Flight into Egypt) c.1508 Oil on canvas, 206 x 336 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Titian, outstanding master of the Renaissance, is represented in the Hermitage by a number of superb works. The Flight into Egypt was…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Allegoria della Prudenza (Allegory of Prudence) early 1680s Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 95.2 cm National Gallery, London This modello, or detailed oil study, is one of a group of 12 that Giordano made in preparation for the ceiling frescoes…
Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) Caccia notturna (The Hunt in the Forest) c.1465–1470 Tempera and oil, with traces of gold, on panel, 73.3 x 177 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Stag Hunt of Elector Frederick the Wise 1529 Oil on lime, 80 × 114 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Among Cranach’s duties as saxon court painter was to preserve important scenes of courtly life in his pictures.…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Les Fables de La Fontaine: Le Cerf et la Vigne (The Fables of La Fontaine: The Deer and the Vine) 1927–1930 Etching and roulette Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • La Fontaine, Jean de (1621-1695)
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Hunting near Hartenfels Castle 1540 Oil on wood transferred to masonite, 116.8 x 170.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The Protestant rulers of Saxony commissioned this animated hunt scene, set near their residence seen in…