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Daniele Barbaro (1545)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Daniele Barbaro 1545 Oil on canvas, 85.8 x 71.5 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Daniele Barbaro c.1545 Museo del Prado, Madrid     See also: • Barbaro, Daniele (1513-1570)

Eve (1507)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Eve 1507 Oil on panel, 209 x 80 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Like the painting of Adam, represented on a separate panel, Eve’s unstable posture, her rhythmical movements and her affected gestures are sometimes interpreted as a…

Self-portrait (1498)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Self-portrait 1498 Oil on panel, 52 x 41 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid In the same year that he published the Apocalipsis cum figuris, Dürer painted himself as a gentleman, dressed in light toned clothes and looking his…

San Cristoforo (c.1500)

Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) San Cristoforo (Saint Christopher) c.1500 Pen, ink, brush, wash and gouache on paper, 28.6 x 17.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Terminus, the Device of Erasmus (c.1532)

Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Terminus, the Device of Erasmus c.1532 Oil on wood, 21.6 x 21.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In the spirit of the Italian Renaissance, Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466–1536), the celebrated Dutch humanist and scholar,…

Te raau rahi (1891)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te raau rahi (The Large Tree) 1891 Oil on fabric, 74 x 92.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gauguin positions four women in a friezelike sequence seeking shelter under the dark green leaves of a large tree…

Cristo en la cruz (c.1600-1610)

El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo en la cruz (Christ on the Cross) c.1600–1610 Oil on canvas, 193 x 116 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland El Greco (Spanish for “the Greek”) was trained on his native island, Crete, as a painter of…