Madrazo y Kuntz, Luis de (1825-1897) Isabel la Católica c.1848 Oil on canvas, 225 x 140.8 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Chronological Series of the Kings of Spain was a museum project planned in 1847 by José de Madrazo to adorn…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait de l’artiste (Self-Portrait) 1855 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 81.5 x 65 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto del Cardinale Bibbiena (Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena) c.1516 Oil on panel, 85 x 66.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze Bernardo Dovizi (Bibbiena 1470– Rome 1520) was a scholar and a diplomat, as well as a friend and trusted private secretary…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di Tommaso Inghirami detto “Fedra” (Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami called ‘Phaedra’) c.1510– 1511 Oil on panel, 89.5 x 62.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze The subject, dressed in a red with a white sash, and wearing a red cap, emerges…
Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Tommaso Inghirami c.1510 Oil on wood, 90 x 62.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Lost in thought, Inghirami gazes up and to the right. Raphael may have chosen this angle to diminish the impact of the sitter’s…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Sacra Famiglia sotto la quercia (Holy Family below the Oak) 1518–1520 Oil on panel, 144 x 110 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Leaning on a classical ruin, Saint Joseph looks at the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child in her…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna del Pesce (Madonna of the Fish) 1513–1514 Oil on panel, 215 x 158 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Seated on a throne, the Virgin holds the Christ Child in her lap. On the right, Saint Jerome dressed as…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna d’Alba (Alba Madonna) c.1510 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, diameter 94.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After four years in Florence, Raphael moved to Rome in 1508, probably to execute more significant commissions under the papal…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Niccolini-Cowper (The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna) 1508 Oil on panel, 80.7 x 57.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Inscription: center right on border of Madonna’s bodice: MDVIII.R.V.PIN (1508 Raphael of Urbino painted it) A woman holds and looks toward…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Piccola Madonna Cowper (Small Cowper Madonna) c.1505 Oil on panel, 59.5 x 44 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman and nude child, both with pale skin, sit in front of a deep landscape in this vertical painting.…