Tag: fire

Miracolo di sant’Eligio (c.1488-1490)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Miracolo di sant’Eligio (Miracle of St. Eligius) c.1488–1490 Tempera on panel, h. 21 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze This panel is part of the predella of the of the San Marco Altarpiece. San Marco Altarpiece: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala di…

La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (c.1855)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (Bark of Dante, copy after Delacroix) c.1855 Oil on canvas, 38.1 x 45.72 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Dante et Virgile aux enfers 1822 Musée du Louvre, Paris  …

Palace of Whitehall (London)

Palace of White Hall Location: City of Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom Built: c.1240 Demolished: 1698 (due to fire) Deaths: • Henry VIII, King of England and Ireland (1491-1547) See also: • Palaces | London (England) | Westminster

La fragua de Vulcano (1630)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La fragua de Vulcano (The Forge of Vulcan) 1630 Oil on canvas, 223 x 290 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A figure suddenly appears on the left in a forge where various blacksmiths are working, dressed in…

Il Fuoco (1566)

Arcimboldo, Giuseppe (1526-1593) Il Fuoco (Fire) 1566 Oil on panel, 66.5 x 51 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Triumph of Death (1562-1563)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Triumph of Death 1562–1563 Oil on panel, 117 x 162 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid In this moral work, the triumph of Death over mundane things is symbolized by a large army of skeletons razing…

Dulle Griet (1562)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) 1562 Oil on panel, 117.4 x 162 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Hunters in the Snow (1565)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Hunters in the Snow (December-January) 1565 Oil on oak panel, 116.5 × 162 × 2.4 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna