Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Cupid c.1606–1611 Oil on canvas, 137 x 111 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Rubens was the most outstanding of all Flemish painters, and a leading exponent of Baroque art. The Toilet of Venus is one of…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Le Concours musical (The Musical Contest) c.1749–1752 Oil on canvas, 62 x 74 cm Wallace Collection, London
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les hasards heureux de l’escarpolette (The Happy Chances of the Swing) c.1767–1768 Oil on canvas, 81 x 64.2 cm Wallace Collection, London Fragonard’s iconic painting is one of the most emblematic images of 18th-century French art. A young…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Cristo sulla croce (Christ on the Cross) c.1580 Oil on canvas, 149 x 90 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ercole scaccia il Fauno dal letto di Onfale (Hercules Expelling the Faun from Omphale’s Bed) c.1585 Oil on canvas, 112 × 106 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest As Ovid’s Fasti (Roman calendar) relates, Hercules and Omphale once exchanged…
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Martirio di sant’Andrea (The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew) 1628 Oil on canvas, 206.1 × 177.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Seventeenth-century Naples was, according to many, hell upon earth. Impoverished by Spanish rule, the life of the…
Guercino (1591-1666) Flagellazione di Cristo (The Flagellation of Christ) c.1641–1644 Oil on canvas, 351 x 176.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Giovanni Francesco Barbieri eked out his first fifty years in his native town, day after day waiting for the death…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Prometeo (Prometheus) c.1660 Oil on canvas, 186 × 132 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La Giustizia disarmata (Justice Disarmed) c.1670 Oil on canvas, 168 x 286 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La lotta tra Ercole e Nesso (The Fight of Hercules and Nessus) c.1660–1665 Oil on canvas, 137.5 x 167.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest