Tag: hand

Giovane cavaliere in un paesaggio (c.1505)

Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Giovane cavaliere in un paesaggio (Young Knight in a Landscape) c.1505 Oil on canvas, 218.5 x 151.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The canvas, signed and dated by Carpaccio on a cartellino to the right of the figure, was…

Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni (1489-1490)

Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni 1489–1490 Mixed media on panel, 77 x 49 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This superb panel is a fine example of fifteenth-century Florentine portraiture. Artists of the time followed classical dictates: body proportions were idealised while…

Cristo e la Samaritana (1310-1311)

Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Cristo e la Samaritana (Christ and the Samaritan Woman) 1310–1311 Tempera and gold on panel, 43.5 x 46 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This painting was part of the predella (the bottom tier) of the Maestà altarpiece made for…

Faust et Méphistophélès (1827-1828)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Faust et Méphistophélès (Faust and Mephistopheles) 1827–1828 Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 37.7 cm Wallace Collection, London See also: • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)