Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Adam c.1533–1537 Oil on panel, 107.5 × 36.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago For most of his long career, Lucas Cranach the Elder was court painter to the Elector of Saxony. Although the general placement of…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Après la corrida (After the Bullfight) 1873 Oil on canvas, 82.5 × 64 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Mary Cassatt chose a quintessentially Spanish subject, executing this composition of a bullfighter, or torero, in full regalia during an…
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) The Bowman (frontispiece from The Epic of Kings, Stories Retold from Firdusi) 1882 Etching in black on cream wove paper, 18.7 × 13.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This etching is one of two prints that Sir Lawrence…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Sposalizio della Vergine (The Marriage of the Virgin) c.1490–1491 Tempera on panel, 21.6 x 48 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) La crocifissione (The Crucifixion) c.1504–1505 Tempera, oil, and gilding on panel, 72.5 x 101.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In this horizontal painting, a crowd of more than two dozen men and women gathered shoulder to shoulder at…
Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513) Capo di un giovane che guarda in alto (Head of a Youth Looking Up) c.1485 Leadpoint and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on gray prepared paper, 25.5 x 19.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Due nudi che combattono (Two Nudes Fighting) s.d. Pen and brown ink on laid paper, 7.9 x 4.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) Portrait of a Man with an Arrow c.1470–1475 Oil on panel, 31.3 x 25.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the shoulders up, a man with peachy skin looks off to our left as he holds the…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) A Young Man in a Large Hat 1626–1629 Oil on panel, 29.3 x 23.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Frans Hals was the preeminent portrait painter in Haarlem, the most important artistic center of Holland in the early…
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Guerrier nu avec une lance (Nude Warrior with a Spear) c.1816 Oil on canvas, 93.6 x 75.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington At the age of nineteen, Théodore Gericault entered the Parisian studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, a successful…