Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Gloria di san Mercuriale (Glory of Saint Mercurial) c.1642–1644 Oil on canvas, 410 x 231 Pinacoteca Civica, Forlì
Gloria di san Mercuriale (1642-1644)
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L’estasi di San Francesco (c.1620-1621)
Guercino (1591-1666) L’estasi di San Francesco (The Ecstasy of St. Francis) c.1620–1621 Oil on canvas, 162 x 127 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (1624)
Guercino (1591-1666) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) 1624 Oil on canvas, diameter 68.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called il Guercino) created Rest on the Flight to Egypt as a…
Visione di santa Chiara (1615-1621)
Guercino (1591-1666) Visione di santa Chiara (Vision of St Clare) 1615–1621 Oil on canvas, 50 x 37.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Santa Cecilia (1649)
Guercino (1591-1666) Santa Cecilia (Saint Cecilia) 1649 Oil on canvas, 121.6 x 100.4 cm Dulwich Picture Gallery, London Saint Cecilia was a third-century Roman martyr according to the Christian tradition. Cecilia undertook a religious vow to remain a virgin, promising…
San Gregorio e Santi (1625-1626)
Guercino (1591-1666) San Gregorio e Santi (Saint Gregory the Great with Saints Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier) c.1625–1626 Oil on canvas, 296 x 211 cm National Gallery, London This altarpiece commemorates one of the most important events of the papacy…
Jacques Offenbach
(1819–1880) Jacob Offenbach “Le Petit Mozart des Champs-Élysées” Works: • Cancan • La Belle Hélène (1864) • La Fille du tambour-major (1879) • La Grande-duchesse de Gérolstein (1867) • La Périchole (1868) • La Vie parisienne (1866) • Les Contes…
Venere con organista e cagnolino (c.1550)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere con organista e cagnolino (Venus with an Organist and a Little Dog) c.1550 Oil on canvas, 138 x 222.4 x 3.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid In contrast to the paintings created for the Camerino d’Alabastro and the…
Estasi di Santa Cecilia (c.1513)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Estasi di Santa Cecilia (Ecstasy of St. Cecilia) c.1513 Oil transferred from panel to canvas, 236 x 149 cm Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna Performed around 1513 for the chapel of Blessed Elena Duglioli, who had built her own image of…
Incoronazione della Vergine (1502-1504)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Incoronazione della Vergine, detta Pala Oddi (Crowning of the Virgin, called Oddi Altarpiece) 1502–1504 Tempera grassa on wood transferred to canvas, 272 x 165 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vaticano The Crowning of the Virgin was painted for the altar of…