Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Ritratto di Musico (Portrait of a Musician) c.1485 Tempera and oil on panel, 44.7 x 32 cm Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milano The only painting on panel by Leonardo to have remained in Milan, this portrait was traditionally thought to…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) San Girolamo (St. Jerome) c.1482 Oil on panel, 103 x 74 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vaticano No information is available as to the destination of the painting and who it was commissioned by. Still in the sketch state it…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Litta mid 1490s Tempera on canvas (handed over from panel), 42 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg This painting would seem to have been produced in Milan, where the artist moved in 1482. It was one…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Il Ratto di Proserpina (The Rape of Proserpina) 1621–1622 Marble, 255 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The work portrays the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, god of the underworld. Narrated by both Claudian and Ovid, the myth tells…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Enea, Anchise e Ascanio (Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius) 1619 Marble, h. 220 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This is the first large sculpture group produced by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Scipione Borghese, for which a payment receipt dating…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Apollo e Dafne (Apollo and Daphne) 1622–1625 Carrara marble, h. 243 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma Apollo here is depicted in the act of running, with his right foot touching the ground and his left raised; the garment…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Van Gogh peignant des tournesols (Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers) 1888 Oil on canvas, 73 x 91 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Was Van Gogh really painting a vase of sunflowers when his friend Gauguin produced this portrait of him?…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Matteo e l’angelo (St Matthew and the Angel) 1602 destroyed in 1945 Oil on canvas, 232 x 183 cm Bode Museum, Berlin (former Kaiser Friedrich Museum)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent Saint Jerome) 1605 Oil on canvas, 145.5 x 101.5 cm Museu de Montserrat, Barcelona
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Madonna di Loreto, Madonna dei Pellegrini (Pilgrim’s Madonna) c.1604 Oil on canvas, 260 x 150 cm Cappella Cavalletti, Sant’Agostino in Campo Marzio, Roma See also: • Loreto (Italia)