Bruegel, Pieter the Elder (c.1525-1569) The Adoration of the Kings 1564 Oil on oak, 112.1 × 83.9 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin sits in front of a dilapidated stable with the naked Christ Child on her knee. Three men offer…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) The Crucifixion 1538 Oil on panel, 121.1 × 82.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) La crocifissione (The Crucifixion) c.1504–1505 Tempera, oil, and gilding on panel, 72.5 x 101.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In this horizontal painting, a crowd of more than two dozen men and women gathered shoulder to shoulder at…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Il rapimento di Elena di Troia (The Abduction of Helen of Troy) c.1685–1690 Oil on canvas, 227 x 193.5 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) La Crucifixion (The Crucifixion) 1644–1646 Oil on canvas, 148.59 x 218.44 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This Crucifixion dramatically illustrates the moment of Christ’s death when the sky went dark, graves were opened, and the bodies of the saved rose…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) The Resurrection c.1631–1632 Oil on canvas, 113.7 x 94.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) L’Europe après la pluie (Europe after the Rain II) 1940–1942 Oil on canvas, 54.8 × 147.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Ernst began this work in occupied France during World War II. He finished it in New York…
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) La mort de Sénèque (The Death of Seneca) 1773 Oil on canvas, 123 x 160 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus minor (4 BC-65 AD)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Alessandro e Bucefalo (Alexander and Bucephalus) c.1757–1760 Oil on canvas, 58 x 34.7 cm Petit Palais, Paris
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Abduction of Proserpina c.1614–1615 Oil on canvas, 38 x 67 cm Petit Palais, Paris