Guercino (1591-1666) Papa Gregorio XV (Pope Gregory XV) c.1622–1623 Oil on canvas, 133.7 × 98.4 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called il Guercino or simply Guercino, meaning “The Squinter”, a nickname referring to a congenital eye condition from which…
Gachet, Paul (1828-1909) La Vieille Route à Auvers-sur-Oise (The Old Road in Auvers-sur-Oise) 1881 Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 54.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France)
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Old Man 1651 Oil on canvas, 99.5 x 84 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower left: G. Flinck f. 1651
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) El almuerzo (Luncheon) c.1617 Oil on canvas, 108.5 x 102 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Entered the Hermitage between 1763 and 1796; the collection of Catherine the Great. Diego Velazquez, in whose work Spanish painting reached its zenith,…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di vecchio (Portrait of an Old Man) early 1550s Oil on canvas, 93 x 72 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Houses on the River (The Old Town) 1914 Oil on canvas, 100 x 120.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Houses on the River belongs to an extensive group of urban landscapes that Egon Schiele painted during the course of…
Post, Frans (1612-1680) The Old Portuguese Fort of the Three Kings or Fort Ceulen, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, Brazil 1638 Oil on canvas, 62 x 95 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The sea is on the left, the…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) c.1555–1556 Oil on canvas, 146 × 193.6 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna In the Old Testament, it is told how Susanna receives lewd proposals from two men who have secretly intruded…
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Busto di giovane (Bust of a Youth and Caricature Head of an Old Man, Both in Left Profile) c.1530 Black chalk on tan laid paper, 18.3 × 12.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton During the 1520s and early…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Monje hablando con una anciana (Monk Talking to an Old Woman) c.1825 Watercolor, 5.7 x 5.4 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton In December 1825, Goya wrote to his friend Joaquín Ferrer, “It is true that last…