Bronzino (1503-1572) Madonna e Bambino con santi (The Madonna and Child with Saints) c.1540 Oil on wood, 101.6 x 81.3 cm National Gallery, London Elderly Saint Elizabeth looks down over the Virgin Mary’s shoulder at her son Saint John the…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Tre filosofi (Three Philosophers) 1508–1509 Oil on canvas, 125.5 × 146.2 × 3.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna “The oil painting with the three philosophers in a landscape, two standing and one sitting looking at the sun’s rays, with…
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…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Sacra Famiglia Benson (The Holy Family) c.1500 Oil on panel transferred to hardboard, 37.3 x 45.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington An old man and a young woman holding an infant are seated together in the center…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of an Old Man 1665 Oil on canvas, 104 x 86 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Signed and dated in 1665, this portrait was created towards the end of Rembrandt‘s prolific artistic career, much of which was…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Ascension of Christ 1636 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 68.3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The so-called ‘Passion Cycle’ was painted for the stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. The six paintings…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Adoration of the Shepherds 1646 Oil on canvas, 97 x 71.3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The so-called ‘Passion Cycle’ was painted for the stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. The…