Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Crocifissione (The Crucifixion) c.1587–1588 Oil on canvas laid on panel, 81.5 × 61.5 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Ragazzo che beve (Boy Drinking) 1582–1583 Oil on canvas, 55.8 x 43.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Together with his brother Agostino and cousin Lodovico, Annibale Carracci introduced artistic reforms in Italy based on close observation of…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) L’estasi di Maria Maddalena (The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene) 1585–1600 Oil on panel, 37.5 x 29.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid According to the Golden Legend, after the death of Christ his follower Mary Magdalene moved to the…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer 1597 Oil on copper, 21.6 x 14.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This sensitive portrait on copper is one of Rubens’s earliest known works. The square…
El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo en la cruz (Christ on the Cross) c.1600–1610 Oil on canvas, 193 x 116 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland El Greco (Spanish for “the Greek”) was trained on his native island, Crete, as a painter of…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di donna (Portrait of a Woman) c.1550 Oil on wood, 60 x 48.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Bronzino was court painter to Cosimo I de’Medici, the Duke of Florence. Though the woman cannot be definitively identified,…
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) L’Auteur fumant, à mi-corps (The author smoking, half-length) 1897 Etching, drypoint and roulette, 34.6 × 24.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York