Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Dantis Amor (Dante’s Love) 1860 Oil on mahogany, 74.9 x 81.3 cm Tate Britain, London «L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.» (Love that moves the sun and the other stars). Dante, Paradiso, XXXIII, v. 145. See also:…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Apoteosi dell’apostolo Giacomo (The Apotheosis of the Apostle James) 1604–1605 Fresco transferred to canvas, 151.3 × 103.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The paintings in the chapel paid for by the Spanish banker Juan Enríquez de Herrera in the…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Apoteosi di San Lorenzo (The Apotheosis of Saint Lawrence) 1604–1605 Fresco transferred to canvas, 152.5 × 104 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Annibale Carracci painted these works without previous cartoons as part of a group for the chapel of San…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Apoteosi di San Francesco (The Apotheosis of Saint Francis) 1604–1605 Fresco transferred to canvas, 151 × 103.3 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Annibale Carracci painted these works without previous cartoons as part of a group for the chapel…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Jane Seymour c.1636–1637 Oil on oak, 65.5 × 47 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna See also: • Jane Seymour, Queen of England (c.1508-1537)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Infanta Margarita Teresa con vestido rosa (Infanta Margarita Teresa in pink dress) 1654 Oil on canvas, 128 × 99.6 × 3.2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna See also: • Margarita Teresa de Austria, Holy Roman Empress (1651-1673)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of a Young Woman with a Rosary c.1609–1610 Oil on panel, 107 x 76.7 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This portrait of an unidentified female sitter can be dated to between 1609 and 1610 when Rubens was…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) The Temptation of Saint Anthony 1594 Oil on copper, 25.2 × 35.2 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) & Workshop John Frederick the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony 1533 Oil on panel, 20 x 14 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This painting was made following the mechanised procedures used by various German workshops in the…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di donna (Portrait of a Woman) c.1550 Oil on wood, 60 x 48.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Bronzino was court painter to Cosimo I de’Medici, the Duke of Florence. Though the woman cannot be definitively identified,…