Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (The Rest on the Flight into Egypt) c.1620 Oil on canvas, 175.6 × 218 cm National Gallery, London On loan from Birmingham Museums Trust on behalf of Birmingham City Council. Compare: Gentileschi, Orazio…
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Danae c.1623 Oil on canvas, 162 x 228.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The gauzy scarf draped over Danaë was a studio prop present in many of Orazio‘s paintings. Danaë’s father feared a prophecy that his grandson…
Campin, Robert (c.1378-1444) John the Baptist c.1410 Oil on oak panel, 17.3 x 11.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland According to tradition, John the Baptist wears a hair shirt under a white cloth, associated with newly baptized Christians. The flag…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Garden Court 1870–1875 Graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache, on paper, 32.3 x 60.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Art historian Andrea Wolk Rager has interpreted this drawing as related to Edward Burne-Jones‘s socialist beliefs,…
Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) La terrasse de la Villa Brancas (The Terrace of the Villa Brancas) 1876 Etching on laid paper, 25.4 x 35.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Here, two women are seated on a sunny terrace in the lush landscape…
Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1475–1480 Tempera on poplar panel, 64.6 x 45 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Francesco di Giovanni Botticini came from a family of painters. His father, Giovanni di Domenico, and his son,…
Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) Madonna col Bambino, Tobia e Raffaele Arcangelo (Madonna and Child with Tobias and Raphael the Archangel) c.1470 Tempera on poplar panel, 96.7 x 59 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) La Sainte Famille sur les marches (The Holy Family on the Steps) 1648 Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 105.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Poussin placed small wax models in a box pierced with holes to study…
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Cupidon et Psyché (Cupid and Psyche) 1817 Oil on canvas, 184.2 x 241.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Jacques-Louis David included two butterflies in this painting: one above the slumbering Psyche and the other on the base…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Incoronazione della Vergine (Coronation of the Virgin) 1420s Tempera and gold on wood panel, 27 x 37.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Since its acquisition in 1944 the authorship of this painting has been updated from the…