Tag: light

Magdalena penitente (c.1576-1577)

El Greco (1541-1614) Magdalena penitente (The Penitent Mary Magdalene) c.1576–1577 Oil on canvas, 156.5 × 121 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Compare: El Greco (1541-1614) Magdalena penitente c.1577 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester    

The Huis ten Bosch from the East (c.1668-1670)

Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden (View from the East) c.1668–1670 Oil on wood, 39.1 x 54.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Both an artist and an inventor (among other…

A View in Cologne (c.1660-1665)

Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) A View in Cologne c.1660–1665 Oil on oak, 33.1 x 42.9 cm National Gallery, London This is one of at least four versions that Jan van der Heyden made of this scene of Cologne and its half-built…

A Farm among Trees (c.1670)

Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) A Farm among Trees c.1670 Oil on oak, 22.1 x 28.8 cm National Gallery, London There is something rather mysterious about this rare – and tiny – landscape by Jan van der Heyden, who specialised in painting…

View of the Westerkerk, Amsterdam (1660)

Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) View of the Westerkerk, Amsterdam probably 1660 Oil on oak, 90.7 x 114.5 cm National Gallery, London This is one of the ultimate seventeenth-century examples of what today we might think of as a high-resolution image.…

Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa (1804)

Gros, Antoine-Jean (1771-1835) Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa (Bonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa) 1804 Oil on canvas, 523 x 715 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Napoléon Bonaparte is shown visiting the plague victims of Jaffa (March 11, 1799). Mosque…