Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni 1489–1490 Mixed media on panel, 77 x 49 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This superb panel is a fine example of fifteenth-century Florentine portraiture. Artists of the time followed classical dictates: body proportions were idealised while…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) The Laughing Cavalier 1624 Oil on canvas, 83 x 67.3 cm Wallace Collection, London A highly gifted portraitist, Frans Hals had a supreme ability to characterise his sitters and make them appear lifelike. This exuberant portrait of a…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Woman c.1648 Oil on canvas, 108 x 80 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Dated around 1648 and perhaps, according to Grimm, a work by Jan Hals, in comparison with the latter’s Portrait of a Lady,…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Andrés (Saint Andrew) 1635–1640 Oil on canvas, 146 x 61 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) La Sagrada Familia (The Holy Family) 1659 Oil on canvas, 121.5 x 97 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest At the very end of his career, Zurbarán abandoned the tenebroso manner of painting that had characterised his…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 120 x 102 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest “There is one man who makes easy what we have always been told is impossible; and that is Paolo…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritratto di donna (Portrait of a Woman) c.1550 Oil on canvas, 38 × 33.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) 1551–1553 Oil on canvas mounted on wood, 48 × 39.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Study of a Man’s Head c.1616–1619 Oil on oak, 55 × 42 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Saint Thomas 1609–1610 Oil on canvas, 105 × 84.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Ribera’s early painting of Doubting Thomas was once part of a series of works depicting the apostles. Such ensambles of portrait-like paintings…