Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Giovane cavaliere in un paesaggio (Young Knight in a Landscape) c.1505 Oil on canvas, 218.5 x 151.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The canvas, signed and dated by Carpaccio on a cartellino to the right of the figure, was…
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni 1489–1490 Mixed media on panel, 77 x 49 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This superb panel is a fine example of fifteenth-century Florentine portraiture. Artists of the time followed classical dictates: body proportions were idealised while…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Cristo e la Samaritana (Christ and the Samaritan Woman) 1310–1311 Tempera and gold on panel, 43.5 x 46 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This painting was part of the predella (the bottom tier) of the Maestà altarpiece made for…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Los desposorios de la Virgen (The Marriage of the Virgin) c.1670 Oil on mahogany panel, 76.2 x 56.5 cm Wallace Collection, London
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La dama del abanico (The Lady with the Fan) c.1640 Oil on canvas, 95 x 70 cm Wallace Collection, London
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) La Inmaculada Concepción (The Immaculate Conception) 1661 Oil on canvas, 136.5 x 102 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest In this figure of a young virgin, radiating purity and sublime humility, Zurbarán embodied the ideal of the Inmaculada,…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Andrés (Saint Andrew) 1635–1640 Oil on canvas, 146 x 61 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) La Sagrada Familia (The Holy Family) 1659 Oil on canvas, 121.5 x 97 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest At the very end of his career, Zurbarán abandoned the tenebroso manner of painting that had characterised his…
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) San Girolamo (Saint Jerome) c.1620 Oil on canvas, 123.5 × 95.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Martirio di sant’Andrea (The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew) 1628 Oil on canvas, 206.1 × 177.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Seventeenth-century Naples was, according to many, hell upon earth. Impoverished by Spanish rule, the life of the…