Tag: embroidery

Garzia de’ Medici (c.1550)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Garzia de’ Medici c.1550 Oil on panel, 48 x 38 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This portrait of García de’ Medici (1547–1562), third son of Cosimo de’ Medici and Leonor de Toledo, is an excellent example of the…

Ritratto di Maria de’ Medici (1551)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Maria de’ Medici (Portrait of Maria de’ Medici) 1551 Tempera on panel, 52.5 x 38 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Medici, Maria di Cosimo I de’ (1540-1557)

Eleonora di Toledo (c.1543)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo c.1543 Oil on panel, 59 x 46 cm National Gallery, Prague Eleanor of Toledo (1522—1562) was the daughter of the Viceroy of Naples Don Pedro de Toledo. This beautiful woman was represented by the Florentine painter…

Eleonora di Toledo (c.1560)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo c.1560 Oil on panel, 86.4 x 65.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562)

Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume (1635)

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…

Belshazzar’s Feast (c.1636-1638)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Belshazzar’s Feast c.1636–1638 Oil on canvas, 167.6 x 209.2 cm National Gallery, London Belshazzar’s Feast was painted somewhere between 1636 and 1638, when Rembrandt was about 30 years old. He had to make his way in Amsterdam, a…

San Lorenzo (1636)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Lorenzo (St Lawrence) 1636 Oil on canvas, 292 x 225 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Saint Lawrence is a splendid example of the austere laconic style of Francisco Zurbarán, who from 1628 was the chief…

Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio (1623)

Guercino (1591-1666) Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio (Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1623 Oil on copper, 72.5 x 65 cm National Gallery, London Mary and Joseph brought the infant Christ, forty days after his birth, to be presented in…

Virgen Niña (1632-1633)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Virgen Niña (The Young Virgin) c.1632–1633 Oil on canvas, 116.8 x 94 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York According to medieval legend, as a girl the Virgin Mary lived in the Temple in Jerusalem, where…