Tag: Milano

San Girolamo penitente (1556-1561)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent Saint Jerome) 1556–1561 Oil on canvas, 235 x 125 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting was made for the altar of Santa Maria Nuova, in Venice, around the mid-1550s; it arrived in Brera…

Ritratto di giovane (c.1565)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1565 Oil on canvas, 115 x 85 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano This painting, with its chequered history of attributions, can be dated c. 1565 thanks to a comparison…

Ritrovamento del corpo di San Marco (1562-1566)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritrovamento del corpo di San Marco (Finding of the Body of Saint Mark) 1562–1566 Oil on canvas, 396 x 400 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Tommaso Rangone, “grand guardian” of the Scuola di San Marco in Venice,…

La Disciplina che tiene a freno i costumi (1544-1545)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) La Disciplina che tiene a freno i costumi, già Allegoria della Fortuna (Allegory of Fortune) 1544–1545 Oil on canvas, 105 x 144 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Attributed at various times to Andrea Schiavone and Tintoretto, it…

Pietà (1563)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Pietà 1563 Oil on canvas, 108 x 170 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting was intended to decorate a lunette in the courtyard of the Procuratie di San Marco in Venice and, according to documents, was…

Le demon du jeu (1928)

Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Le demon du jeu (The Demon of the Game) 1928 Oil on canvas, 160 x 66 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano This panel, along with Le coup de foudre, was part of the series of decorative panels…

Le coup de foudre (1928)

Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Le coup de foudre (Love at first sight) 1928 Oil on canvas, 160 x 66 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano This panel along with its neighbour, titled Le demon du jeu, was part of a series of…

Nature morte avec mandoline (1920)

Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Nature morte avec mandoline (Still life with mandolin) 1920 Tempera on paper, 32 x 49 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting is a particularly finished still life study of very high quality, made in the early…