Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George slaying the dragon) c.1430 Tempera and gold on panel, 62.2 x 38.8 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Compare: Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) San Giorgio e il drago c.1470 National Gallery, London …
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of Isabella Brant c.1620–1625 Oil on wood, 53 x 46 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Isabella Brant was Rubens’s first wife. He painted her many times in many different ways before she died at the…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Retrato de Manuelita Rosas (Portrait of Manuelita Rosas) 1851 Oil on canvas, 199 x 166 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Prilidiano Pueyrredón returned from Europe in 1851, after having left Buenos Aires in 1835.…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume 1635 Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 97.5 cm National Gallery, London Saskia van Uylenburgh, the daughter of a burgomaster of Leeuwarden in Friesland, was 23 years old and had been married to…
Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, Known as the ‘Night Watch’ Rembrandt (1606-1669) Night Watch 1642 Oil on canvas, 379.5 x 453.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt‘s largest and most famous painting was made…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Musical Company 1626 Oil on panel, 63.5 x 48 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The subject of this painting is a mystery: is it an exhortation to praise God through singing and string music, or a scene of seduction with…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Bacchus and Ariadne c.1680 Oil on canvas, 175.2 x 92.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (on loan from Mauritshuis, The Hague) Ovid described the following scene in his Metamorphoses: on the island of Naxos, Bacchus, the god of wine, chances upon…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Apollo and Aurora 1671 Oil on canvas, 204.5 x 193.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Largely forgotten today, De Lairesse was celebrated in his lifetime as a painter and advocate for an idealizing manner based…
Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Morte di Cleopatra (The Death of Cleopatra) after 1659 Oil on canvas, 153 x 169 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at the bottom right of the armrest support: GVIDO CAGNAZZI The last queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, let herself…
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Lucca Madonna c.1437 Oil on panel, 65.5 × 149.5 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt No other work by Jan van Eyck conveys a sense of such immediate intimacy between the viewer and the figures depicted as this painting.…