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…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Girl 1632 Oil on panel, 60 x 50 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Testa di giovane donna (Head of a Young Lady) 1915 Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
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…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Madonna dei Cherubini, Madonna con il Bambino e un coro di cherubini (Madonna of Cherubs, Madonna and Child with a Choir of Cherubs) 1485–1490 Tempera on panel, 88 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The panel,…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Cristo morto nel sepolcro e tre dolenti (The Dead Christ and Three Mourners) c.1483 Tempera on canvas, 68 x 81 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The most convincing hypothesis, despite the uncertainties stemming from the existence of…
Guercino (1591-1666) Mezza figura di giovane con profilo verso destra (Half figure of young man, right profile) c.1628 Pencil on paper, 200 x 145 mm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Morte di Cleopatra (Death of Cleopatra) 1660–1662 Oil on canvas, 120 x 158 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Compare: Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) La Morte di Cleopatra c.1645–1655 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Morte di…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto, verso (Self-Portrait, back) 1908? Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Painted on the back of a Self-portrait in 1908, this second self-portrait of the artist may actually be the earlier work…