Caravaggio (1571-1610) Flagellazione di Cristo (Flagellation of Christ) c.1606 Oil on canvas, 134 x 175.5 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen The Rouen Museum of Fine Arts owes this work, one of its masterpieces, to a highly inspired and relatively late purchase made…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) La Flagellazione di Cristo (Flagellation of Christ) 1607 Oil on canvas, 286 x 213 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Caravaggio (1571-1610) David con la testa di Golia (David and Goliath) c.1600 Oil on canvas, 110.4 x 91.3 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Compared with the many other treatments of this well-known biblical episode, the scene depicted in the Prado picture is…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ecce Homo c.1605 Oil on canvas, 128 x 103 cm Palazzo Bianco, Genova The canvas, the origin of which is still unclear, was recorded in the inventory of Palazzo Bianco in 1921 as being a copy by Lionello Spada of…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Deposizione (Entombment of Christ) c.1600–1604 Oil on canvas, 300 x 203 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vaticano The Deposition, considered one of Caravaggio‘s greatest masterpieces, was commissioned by Girolamo Vittrice for his family chapel in S. Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova) in Rome.…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Naissance de Vénus (Birth of Venus) 1879 Oil on canvas, 300 x 215 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Cattura di Cristo (The Taking of Christ) 1602 Oil on canvas, 133.5 x 169.5 cm National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Throughout history, few artists have caused as radical a change in pictorial perceptions as Caravaggio. From the moment his talent…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony c.1530s Oil on panel, 62.8 x 39.7 cm Private Collection See also: • John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503-1554)
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) & Workshop Frederick III the Wise 1533 Oil on beech, 20.3 x 14.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York These posthumous portraits of the Saxon electors Friedrich III, the Wise, and Johann I, the Constant…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of Frederick the Wise 1530–1535 Oil on panel, 62.9 x 47.3 cm Private Collection Compare: Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of Frederick the Wise c.1525 Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Frederick…