Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) St Luke Drawing the Virgin 15th century Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 108.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The subject is taken from a 6th-century legend of Greek origin, according to which St Luke was the…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Voix intérieures (Inner Voices, Christ Consoling the Wanderers) 1885 Oil on canvas, 214 x 124 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Madonna col Bambino e cherubini (Madonna and Child with Cherubs) 1520s Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 111 x 75.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The Florentine Mannerist Rosso Fiorentino developed at an early age an extravagant, experimental…
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Ecce Homo 1632–1634 Oil on canvas, 57 x 46 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Conestabile (Conestabile Madonna) c.1504 Tempera on canvas (handed over from panel), 17.5 x 18 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Raphael entered the history of Italian art as the “genius of harmony”. The ideals of the High Renaissance were…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Sacra Famiglia (Holy Family, Madonna with Beardless Joseph) 1506–1507 Tempera, oil on canvas (handed over from panel), 72.5 x 56.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Raphael painted this Holy Family during his stay in Florence, possibly for the ruler…
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) La Déposition de la croix (The Descent from the Cross) 1627–1628 Oil on canvas, 120 x 98 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Nicolas Poussin was the leading exponent of the French Classicism of the first half of the…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Sagrada Familia (Holy Family) c.1665 Oil on wood panel, 24 x 18 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Cristo conduce gli Apostoli sul monte Tabor (Christ Leading the Apostles to Mount Tabor) 1511–1512 Oil on canvas, 26.5 x 57.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto con Santa Giustina (Rest on the Flight into Egypt with St Justine) 1529–1530 Oil on canvas, 82 x 132.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The story of Saint Justine is full of puzzles…