Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere allo specchio (Venus with a Mirror) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 124.5 x 105.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Titian’s goddess of love and beauty conjures the sense of touch. Observing her flushed cheek, one can almost feel its…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere allo specchio (Venus with a Mirror) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 101 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere allo specchio c.1555 National Gallery of Art, Washington
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Pietro Aretino (Portrait of Pietro Aretino) 1545 Oil on canvas, 96.7 × 77.6 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze This portrait of Pietro Aretino was painted by Titian in early 1545 and was later donated by the Tuscan poet,…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Apostle Judas Thaddeus 1619–1621 Oil on oak, 61.4 × 49.7 × 2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The so-called Böhler series of 13 busts depicting Christ and the 12 apostles (only two of them in the KHM) dates…
Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513) Santa Caterina d’Alessandria e committente (Saint Catherine of Alexandria with a Donor) c.1480 Oil on wood, 56.5 x 38.1 cm National Gallery, London This painting was made for private worship, and the donor who commissioned it is shown kneeling…
Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513) Madonna col Bambino benedicente (The Virgin and Blessing Child) c.1480 Tempera on wood, 53.5 x 35.5 cm National Gallery, London Presented by Queen Victoria at the Prince Consort’s wish, 1863. Pintoricchio painted a number of images of the Virgin…
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Ritratto di giovane con una lettera (Portrait of a Young Man holding a Letter) 1518 Oil on wood, 85.5 x 66.5 cm National Gallery, London A young man glances up at us from the letter he has just been…
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Cavaliere di San Giovanni (A Knight of Saint John) c.1523–1524 Oil on poplar, 96.8 x 76.2 cm National Gallery, London The unknown man in this half-length portrait proudly displays an eight-pointed silver cross suspended from a black cord round…
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) early 1520s Oil on panel, 88.7 x 67.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Martirio di San Bartolomeo (The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew) 1634 Oil on canvas, 104 x 113 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A popular subject in Counter–Reformation Italy and Spain, Ribera‘s profoundly moving work portrays the apostle’s…