El Greco (1541-1614) San Francisco medita sobre la muerte (Saint Francis Meditating on Death) 1600–1610 Oil on canvas, 106 x 66 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Compare: El Greco (1541-1614) San Francisco y el hermano León meditando sobre la muerte…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) 1632 Oil on canvas, 114 x 78 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires In the iconography of St Francis of Assisi, which began shortly after his…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) 17th century Oil on canvas, 81.5 x 57 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Doge Alvise Mocenigo presentato al Redentore (Doge Alvise Mocenigo Presented to the Redeemer) probably 1577 Oil on canvas, 97.2 x 198.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This unfinished sketch records one stage of Tintoretto’s preparation…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Adorazione dei pastori Allendale (The Adoration of the Shepherds) 1505–1510 Oil on panel, 90.8 x 110.5 cm cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Four people with pale skin are gathered to our right in a landscape, their heads…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Felipe IV, orante (Philip IV in prayer) c.1655 Oil on canvas, 209 x 147 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This pair of portraits (P001220 and P001222) combines several aspects of Spanish portraiture of the Baroque period. In…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Woman taken in Adultery 1644 Oil on oak, 83.8 x 65.4 cm National Gallery, London A woman kneels and weeps. Darkness like a great cavern surrounds her. A shaft of light picks her out on the stone…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Circumcision 1661 Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 75 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633),…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Visión de san Pedro Nolasco (Vision of St. Peter Nolasco) 1629 Oil on canvas, 179 x 223 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Founder of the order of la Merced Calzada, the saint is depicted kneeling, leaning on…
Guercino (1591-1666) San Gregorio e Santi (Saint Gregory the Great with Saints Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier) c.1625–1626 Oil on canvas, 296 x 211 cm National Gallery, London This altarpiece commemorates one of the most important events of the papacy…