Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Old Man 1651 Oil on canvas, 99.5 x 84 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower left: G. Flinck f. 1651
Old Man (1651)
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Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (c.1604-1605)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well) c.1604–1605 Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 146 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Compare: Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo 1594–1595 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano…
Sacra Famiglia con Sant’Anna e san Giovannino (c.1540)
Bronzino (1503-1572) Sacra Famiglia con Sant’Anna e san Giovannino (Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John) c.1540 Oil on poplar panel, 126.8 x 101.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed on the stone under the left foot of the…
El almuerzo (c.1617)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) El almuerzo (Luncheon) c.1617 Oil on canvas, 108.5 x 102 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Entered the Hermitage between 1763 and 1796; the collection of Catherine the Great. Diego Velazquez, in whose work Spanish painting reached its zenith,…
Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (16th century)
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (Mystic Marriage of St Catherine) 16th century Oil on panel, 184 x 133 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
St Luke Drawing the Virgin (15th century)
Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) St Luke Drawing the Virgin 15th century Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 108.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The subject is taken from a 6th-century legend of Greek origin, according to which St Luke was the…
Ecce Homo (1632-1634)
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Ecce Homo 1632–1634 Oil on canvas, 57 x 46 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents (1786)
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents 1786 Oil on canvas, 303 x 297 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In 1785 Joshua Reynolds, President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, was commissioned by Catherine II of Russia to paint…
Continence of Scipio (1789)
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Continence of Scipio 1789 Oil on canvas, 239.5 x 165.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In 1785 the British diplomat Lord Carysfort was entrusted with a commission to Reynolds for two paintings, one for Catherine the Great of…
Sacra Famiglia (1506-1507)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Sacra Famiglia (Holy Family, Madonna with Beardless Joseph) 1506–1507 Tempera, oil on canvas (handed over from panel), 72.5 x 56.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Raphael painted this Holy Family during his stay in Florence, possibly for the ruler…