Tag: Egypt

Morte di Cleopatra (c.1525)

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 See also: • Cleopatra (69-30 BC) | Egypt

La fuga in Egitto (1701)

Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La fuga in Egitto (The Flight into Egypt) 1701 Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 48.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1692 Giordano was summoned to Spain as court painter to King Charles II. Charles was succeeded in…

Adorazione dei Magi (1423)

Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) 1423 Tempera on panel, 300 × 282 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Predella: Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) La presentazione al tempio c.1423 Musée du Louvre, Paris    

Tebaide (c.1420)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Tebaide (Thebaid) c.1420 Tempera on panel, 75 x 207 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze

Paesaggio con la Fuga in Egitto (c.1604)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Paesaggio con la Fuga in Egitto (Landscape with the Flight into Egypt) c.1604 Oil on canvas, 122 x 230 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma It is the leading element of the so-called “Aldobrandini Lunettes”, thanks to which the…

La Morte di Cleopatra (c.1645-1655)

Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) La Morte di Cleopatra (The Death of Cleopatra) c.1645–1655 Oil on canvas, 95 × 75 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The subject, from Plutarch’s Lives (1st century A.D.), is Cleopatra’s suicide by an asp bite following the…

Il banchetto di Cleopatra (1743-1744)

Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Il banchetto di Cleopatra (The Banquet of Cleopatra) 1743–1744 Oil on canvas, 250.3 × 357 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne See also: • Cleopatra (69-30 BC) | Egypt

Riposo durante la Fuga in Egitto (1597)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Riposo durante la Fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) 1597 Oil on canvas, 135.5 x 166.5 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma The “Rest” is a masterpiece of extraordinary beauty and exceptional communicative immediacy by the young…