Tag: Italia

Il festino degli dei (1514)

Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Il festino degli dei (The Feast of the Gods) 1514 Oil on canvas, 170 x 188 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Completed by his disciple, Titian, in 1529 Titian‘s landscape to the left of the painting. Six…

Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples (c.1551-1553)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples c.1551–1553 Oil on panel, 42.2 x 71.2 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma The extraordinary panel shows the port of Naples, in which a naval battle, probably invented, takes place.…

Fillide Melandroni

(1581–1618) Fillide Melandroni in Art: Caravaggio (1571-1610) Fillide Melandroni c.1597, destroyed in 1945 Bode Museum, Berlin     Caravaggio (1571-1610) Marta e Maria Maddalena c.1598 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit     Caravaggio (1571-1610) Santa Caterina d’Alessandria c.1598–1599 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid     Caravaggio (1571-1610) Giuditta e Oloferne…

Guillaume Apollinaire

(1880–1918) Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Aleksander Apolinary Kostrowicki Works: • Alcools (1913) • L’hérésiarque et Cie (1910) • L’oeuvre du divin Arétin (1910) • Les trois Don Juan (1914) • (Méditations esthétiques) Les Peintres cubistes (1913) Quotes: • Guillaume Apollinaire: Quotations Apollinaire in Art: Derain, André (1880-1954) Le chevalier…

Isabella d’Este (1499-1500)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Isabella d’Este 1499–1500 Black and red chalk, yellow pastel chalk on paper, 63 x 46.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Portrait of Isabella d’Este executed by Leonardo da Vinci during his visit to Mantua, after leaving…

La Gioconda (Monna Lisa)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) La Gioconda (Monna Lisa) c.1503–1506 Oil on poplar, 79.4 x 53.4 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris A false identity problem It is only since the 20th century that certain historians, but more often amateurs in search of recognition,…

El Greco

(1541–1614) Doménikos Theotokópoulos Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος The artist’s works: Adoración del Nombre de Jesús late 1570s National Gallery, London Cristo expulsando a los mercaderes del templo c.1570–1575 Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Pietà Early 1570s Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Retrato de un hombre 1570–1575 Statens…