Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Mort de Sardanapale (Death of Sardanapalus) 1827 Oil on canvas, 392 cm × 496 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris “The rebels besieged him in his palace… Lying on a superb bed, at the top of an immense pyre,…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Cristo cargando la cruz (Christ Bearing the Cross) c.1665–1675 Oil on canvas, 154.3 × 210.8 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Murillo has transformed what is typically depicted as a crowded scene into a private encounter between the…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) La Sacra Famiglia con San Giovanni Battista e Santa Margherita (The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Margaret) 1495 Tempera and oil on wood, diameter 153 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Lippi‘s sophisticated composition…
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Sant’Antonio Abate (St. Anthony Abbot) 1458 Tempera on wood panel, 81.3 x 29.8 x 3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Pair of Panels from a Triptych: The Archangel Michael and St. Anthony Abbot. These panels depicting Saints Anthony…
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) The Betrayal of Christ late 1650s Oil on canvas, 225.5 x 246.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland After the deaths of fellow Flemish painters Peter Paul Rubens in 1640 and Anthony van Dyck in 1641, Jordaens became…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La Vergine col Bambino appare a San Francesco d’Assisi (The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Francis of Assisi) 1680s Oil on canvas, 239.4 x 195.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This work represents the High Baroque…
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Giuditta e la sua serva con la testa di Oloferne (Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes) 1621–1624 Oil on canvas, 136.5 x 159.1 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Orazio Gentileschi represents the biblical episode of Judith,…
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (The Rest on the Flight into Egypt) c.1620 Oil on canvas, 175.6 × 218 cm National Gallery, London On loan from Birmingham Museums Trust on behalf of Birmingham City Council. Compare: Gentileschi, Orazio…
Campin, Robert (c.1378-1444) John the Baptist c.1410 Oil on oak panel, 17.3 x 11.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland According to tradition, John the Baptist wears a hair shirt under a white cloth, associated with newly baptized Christians. The flag…