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Tebaide (c.1417-1423)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Tebaide (Thebaid) c.1417–1423 Tempera on poplar, 73.7 × 105.5 × 2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest In fourteenth-century Italy new interest arose in the life of the early hermits who retired to the Theban and Nitrian deserts in…

Portrait of a Young Man (c.1500-1510)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of a Young Man c.1500–1510 Oil on pine, 43 × 29 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Albrecht Dürer was indisputably the greatest sixteenth-century painter north of the Alps. Not only did he have a God-given talent,…

Venere, Cupido e la gelosia (c.1550)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Venere, Cupido e la gelosia (Venus, Cupid and Jealousy) c.1550 Oil on poplar, 175.5 × 142 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest ‘The human eye cannot see like this,’ stated Wölfflin, the authoritative art historian, of Bronzino’s art. And…

Caterina Cornaro, regina di Cipro (c.1500)

Bellini, Gentile (c.1429-1507) Caterina Cornaro, regina di Cipro (Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus) c.1500 Oil on wood, 63.2 × 49.4 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest The heroine of Donizetti’s opera, Caterina Cornaro was not born to the crown. The Venetian patrician…

L’Arno a Firenze (1740)

Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) L’Arno a Firenze (The Arno in Florence) 1740 Oil on canvas, 62 × 90 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest See also: • Firenze (Italia)