Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo c.1543 Oil on panel, 59 x 46 cm National Gallery, Prague Eleanor of Toledo (1522—1562) was the daughter of the Viceroy of Naples Don Pedro de Toledo. This beautiful woman was represented by the Florentine painter…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Una giovane donna e il suo bambino (A Young Woman and Her Little Boy) c.1540 Oil on panel, 99.5 x 76 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman wearing a crimson-red brocade dress and gold jewelry fills…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Adoración de los Reyes Magos (Adoration of the Magi) 1619 Oil on canvas, 203 x 125 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Painted in Seville in 1619, The Adoration of the Magi is the largest of Velázquez‘s early…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme espagnole avec guitare (Young Spanish Woman with Guitar) 1898 Oil on canvas, 55.6 x 65.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman with pale, peachy skin and flushed cheeks sits facing our right…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait as a Young Man c.1634 Oil on wood, 62.5 x 54 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Rembrandt (1606-1669) & Studio A Young Man with a Chain c.1629 or 1632 Oil on wood, 57.8 x 43.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This painting is an example of a tronie, a Dutch word meaning “head” or “facial…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Bust of a Man in Oriental Dress 1633 Oil on oak, 85.8 x 63.8 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Paintings of individual figures in Holland in the seventeenth century that were neither portraits nor history paintings are called tronies…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Gold Chain 1634 Oil on panel, 69.5 x 53 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston As a young painter newly arrived in Amsterdam, Rembrandt rapidly gained fame for his stylish portraits of…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Old Man with a Gold Chain 1631 Oil on panel, 83.1 x 75.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This evocative character study is an early example of a type of subject that preoccupied the great Dutch master…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Philips Lucasz 1635 Oil on oak, 79.5 x 58.9 cm National Gallery, London This painting was made in 1635, when Rembrandt was 29 years old, just over three years after he had set up his studio…