Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman 1505 Spruce, 33 × 24.5 × 2.7 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at the top in the middle with the monogram, dat. 1505 We don’t know who the charming young lady is,…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna del Prato (Madonna of the meadow) 1505–1506 Oil on poplar, 113 × 88.3 × 3.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscription on the hem of Mary’s dress with the year M.d.V. (perhaps also M.D.V.I. to be read) The group,…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Bacchus 1638–1640 Oil on canvas, 191 x 161.3 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Bacchanalia was a favourite theme in Rubens‘s work, although Bacchus himself was rarely the subject of his paintings. He saw the subject as reflecting…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Honeysuckle Bower c.1609–1610 Oil on canvas, transferred to wood, 178 x 136.5 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Rubens returned to Antwerp in 1608 after an eight-year stay in Italy. The following year he married Isabella Brant. This…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer 1597 Oil on copper, 21.6 x 14.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This sensitive portrait on copper is one of Rubens’s earliest known works. The square…
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…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Hélène Fourment with two of her children (Clara Johanna, born in 1632, and Frans, born in 1633) c.1636 Oil on panel, 115 x 85 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted around 1636, given the ages of the…