Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) El almuerzo (Luncheon) c.1617 Oil on canvas, 108.5 x 102 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Entered the Hermitage between 1763 and 1796; the collection of Catherine the Great. Diego Velazquez, in whose work Spanish painting reached its zenith,…
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Repas comique, Banquet des affamés (Comical Repast, Banquet of the Starved) c.1917–1918 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 145.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Donatello (1386-1466) Banchetto di Erode (The Banquet of Herod) c.1435 Marble, 50 x 71.3 x 5 cm Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) II mangiafagioli (The Bean Eater) 1584–1585 Oil on panel, 57 x 68 cm Galleria Colonna, Roma Compare: Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Mangiafagioli c.1582–1583 Allentown Art Museum, Allentown
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Mangiafagioli (Bean Eater) c.1582–1583 Oil on canvas, 69.53 x 88.26 cm Allentown Art Museum, Allentown Compare: Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) II mangiafagioli 1584–1585 Galleria Colonna, Roma
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) L’Ascète (The Ascetic) 1903 Oil on canvas, 118.4 x 80.6 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Potato Eaters 1885 Lithograph on paper, 26.5 x 32.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The series on the Potato Eaters, executed in Nuenen in spring 1885, is one of the most significant of Vincent van Gogh’s first…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) The Institution of the Eucharist 1664–1665 Oil on canvas, 137 x 155 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Cleopatra’s Banquet c.1675–1680 Oil on canvas, 74 x 95.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Cleopatra made a bet with Mark Antony on who could give the most lavish banquet. She won by dissolving a priceless pearl in vinegar and…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nastagio degli Onesti, fourth episode 1483 Tempera on panel, 83 x 142 cm Private collection These panels illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio‘s Decameron. This is the story of Nastagio,…