Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Massacre of the Innocents (copy) 4th quarter of the 16th century Oil on oak, 116 × 159.7 × 3.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Due to minimal errors and omissions as well as an age test conducted…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569), copy after Massacre of the Innocents 17th century Oil on oak panel, 63 x 84.5 x 8 cm Upton House and Gardens, England Compare: Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Massacre of the Innocents 1565–1567 Brukenthal National…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Massacre of the Innocents c.1565–1567 Oil on panel, 109.2 x 158.1 cm Royal Collection, Windsor Castle According to St Matthew’s Gospel, after hearing from the wise men of the birth of Jesus, King Herod ordered that…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Netherlandish Proverbs 1559 Oil on oak panel, 117.2 x 163.8 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SHELFMARK / INSCRIPTION: Reference lower right: BRVEGEL • 1559 The picture brings together 100 proverbs and places them in surroundings that are as…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Hunters in the Snow (Winter / December-January) 1565 Oil on oak panel, 116.5 × 162 × 2.4 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The group of hunters returns to the low–lying village, accompanied by an exhausted pack of…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Landscape with the Fall of Icarus c.1558 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 112 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) & Workshop San Giovanni nel deserto, Bacco (St John in the Wilderness, Bacchus) c.1517–1520 Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 177 x 115 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris We do not know the circumstances of the creation of…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Il Ratto di Proserpina (The Rape of Proserpina) 1621–1622 Marble, 255 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The work portrays the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, god of the underworld. Narrated by both Claudian and Ovid, the myth tells…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) I Raro te Oviri (Under the Pandanus) 1891 Oil on canvas, 67.31 x 90.8 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In his mid-thirties, Paul Gauguin abandoned his life as a stockbroker to become an artist. He sought to…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te Arii Vahine (The King’s Wife) 1896 Oil on canvas, 96.6 x 129.8 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow