Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Nous autres musiciens (Three Musicians) 1921 Oil on canvas, 204.5 × 188.3 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Pablo Picasso had a large ambition for this monumental canvas: to look back at and say farewell to a key period…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Christophe Colomb et son fils à La Rábida (Christopher Columbus and His Son at La Rábida) 1838 Oil on canvas, 90.3 x 118 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Colombo, Cristoforo (1451-1506) | La Rábida |…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Monaco con un libro (A monk with a book) c.1550 Oil on canvas, 84.5 × 74.5 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) c.1635 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 68.6 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego Zurbarán is recognized as one of the greatest Spanish painters of the seventeenth century. He…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Visione di San Pascual Baylón (Vision of St. Paschal Baylon) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 340 x 180 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The two surviving fragments of the canvas painted before August 29, 1769 have been assembled…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Sant’Antonio di Padova con Gesù Bambino (St. Anthony of Padua and the Child Jesus) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 225 x 176 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) wears a Franciscan habit and meditates…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Titus in a Monk’s Habit 1660 Oil on canvas, 79.5 x 67.7 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt portrays his 19-year-old son Titus as a Franciscan monk. The rules of the Order prescribe a life of poverty and humility, reflected…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Dormition of the Virgin c.1564 Oil on panel, 67.7 x 85.3 x 12.6 cm Upton House and Gardens, England This ‘grisaille’, or grey monochrome painting, shows the death of the Virgin, attended by the…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Peasant Wedding c.1568 Oil on oak, 113 × 164 × 3.2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The apparent “snapshot” of this picture is in fact carefully composed. Dispensing with allegorical meaning the painting is a realistic…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Netherlandish Proverbs 1559 Oil on oak panel, 117.2 x 163.8 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SHELFMARK / INSCRIPTION: Reference lower right: BRVEGEL • 1559 The picture brings together 100 proverbs and places them in surroundings that are as…