Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Testa di giovane ridente (Head of a Laughing Youth) c.1585 Oil on paper on canvas, 44.5 × 29.5 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The painting, mentioned as ‘Buffoon laughing’, has been part of the Borghese collection since 1693 and…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Agonia nell’orto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1596–1597 Oil on panel, 39.1 x 30.3 cm Royal Collection, Windsor Castle Against a dark background the figure of Christ kneels, his head turned right towards the figure of an angel in…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Testa d’uomo di profilo (Head of a Man in Profile) c.1588–1595 Oil on canvas, 44.8 x 32.1 cm Royal Collection, Windsor Castle This vivid head is precisely the type of study from everyday life practised so passionately by…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) 1604 Oil on panel, 56.8 x 86.1 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma This is the “Casta Susanna with the two old men” on a panel by Annibale Carracci described by…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Ritratto di uomo con scimmia (Portrait of man with monkey) 1590–1591 Oil on canvas, 68 x 58.3 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Piccola macelleria (The Butcher’s Shop) c.1582 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 71 cm Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Around the time that he painted The Butcher’s Shop, in about 1582, Annibale Carracci joined his older cousin Ludovico and…
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…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Le paysage de Baucis (Baucis’s Landscape) 1966 Oil on canvas, 55.6 × 45.7 cm Menil Collection, Houston
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of a young merchant 1541 Oil on oak, 46.5 × 34.8 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Holbein created a new style of portraiture that is characterized by monumentality paired with extreme painterly precision. The young businessman…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Jane Seymour c.1536–1537 Oil on oak, 65.5 × 47 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Holbein became court painter to Henry VIII of England in 1536. Among the first of his paintings in the service of the King was…