Michelangelo (1475-1564) Ragazzo accovacciato (Crouching Boy) c.1530–1534 Marble, height: 54 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The Renaissance genius Michelangelo was an outstanding architect and poet, as well as the creator of the celebrated frescoes in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. But his…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La fucina di Vulcano (Vulcan’s Forge) c.1660 Oil on canvas, 192.5 x 151.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This early work by Luca Giordano manages to combine a mythological theme with a treatment worthy of a genre painting.…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Venus Discordia 1873 Oil on canvas, 128.2 x 209.8 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Born in Birmingham, but of Welsh extraction, Burne-Jones was much admired by early twentieth-century Welsh critics. A friend of William Morris and an associate…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) c.1540–1542 Oil on canvas, 201 x 119 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia