Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Cristo in pietà sorretto da due angeli (Christ as the Suffering Redeemer supported by two angels) 1495–1500 Tempera on panel, 78 x 48 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen The Gospel according to St. Luke begins its account of…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Incontro di Gioacchino e Anna fuori dalla Porta Aurea di Gerusalemme (Meeting of Joachim and Anne outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem) 1497 Tempera on panel, 112.5 x 124 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Filippino Lippi first studied…
El Greco (1541-1614) Retrato de un hombre (Portrait of a Man) 1570–1575 Oil on canvas, 116 x 98 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen The chalk holder on the armrest, accompanied by a book with white and red bookmarks, suggests that the…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Diego Rivera 1916 Oil on paper, 100.5 x 81 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo Modigliani’s characters have the Gothic, lanky behavior of a sunflower reaching up to celebrate heliotropism, as evinced in the other five portraits that integrate…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’artiste, Portrait de Marcellin Desboutin (The Artist, Portrait of Marcellin Desboutin) 1875 Oil on canvas, 195.5 x 131.5 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo See also: • Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902)
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Cosimo I de’ Medici (Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici) c.1560 Oil on wood, 84 x 64 cm National Gallery, Prague See also: • Medici, Cosimo I de’ (1519-1574)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Père Paul 1882 Oil on canvas, 64.5 × 52.1 cm Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna The light! The colors! Impressionist paintings seem to glow from within. Pink, blue and green stand side by side in many different shades. Up…
Guercino (1591-1666) Papa Gregorio XV (Pope Gregory XV) c.1622–1623 Oil on canvas, 133.7 × 98.4 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called il Guercino or simply Guercino, meaning “The Squinter”, a nickname referring to a congenital eye condition from which…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Ritratto di papa Urbano VIII Barberini (Portrait of Pope Urban VIII Barberini) c.1631–1632 Oil on canvas, 70 x 65 cm Palazzo Barberini, Roma Upon his election in 1623, Maffeo Barberini chose the name Urban to emphasize, among other…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Small Self-Portrait c.1657 Oil on walnut wood, 48 × 40.6 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna In this informal portrait, Rembrandt confronts the viewer in everyday attire – a brown skirt and red woollen shirt. With advancing age, simplicity of appearance and…