Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Stigmatizzazione di San Francesco (Stigmatization of Saint Francis) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 278 x 153 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A depiction of a miracle in the life of Saint Francis of Assisi that took place in…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Angelo con corona di gigli (Angel with a crown of lilies) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 40 x 53 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is a fragment of Saint Joseph with the infant Christ, painted for the…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Sant’Antonio di Padova con Gesù Bambino (St. Anthony of Padua and the Child Jesus) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 225 x 176 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) wears a Franciscan habit and meditates…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Abramo e i tre angeli (Abraham and the three angels) c.1770 Oil on canvas, 196 x 151 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This painting presents an event mentioned in the book of Genesis (18, 1.19). Giambattista Tiepolo…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1635–1638 Oil on canvas, 46 x 32 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Bernini‘s Self-portrait that has been kept in the Museo del Prado since 1929, since it was published in 1908 by D’Achiardi, critics…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1565 Oil on canvas, 115 x 85 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano This painting, with its chequered history of attributions, can be dated c. 1565 thanks to a comparison…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Pietà 1563 Oil on canvas, 108 x 170 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting was intended to decorate a lunette in the courtyard of the Procuratie di San Marco in Venice and, according to documents, was…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) L’Enfant gras (The Fat Child) 1915 Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 37.5 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano “Today critics are lavish with their praise and confer genius and beauty on every street corner […]. I am almost…