Rembrandt (1606-1669) Philemon and Baucis 1658 Oil on panel transferred to panel, 54.5 x 68.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Bacchus and Ariadne c.1680 Oil on canvas, 175.2 x 92.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (on loan from Mauritshuis, The Hague) Ovid described the following scene in his Metamorphoses: on the island of Naxos, Bacchus, the god of wine, chances upon…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Sisifo (Sisyphus) 1548–1549 Oil on canvas, 237 x 216 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The literary source for the Furies is Ovid‘s Metamorphoses (IV, 447-464) and Virgil‘s Aeneid (VI, 457-8), which recounts the eternal sufferings in Hades of Tityus,…
(1599–1660) Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez The artist’s works: El almuerzo c.1617 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg La educación de la Virgen c.1617–1618 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Almuerzo de campesinos c.1618–1619 Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Bodegón 1618–1620 Art Institute of…
(1798–1863) Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix The artist’s works: La Mise au tombeau d’après Titien 1820 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Un cheval attelé à un poteau c.1820 National Gallery of Art, Washington Dante et Virgile aux enfers 1822 Musée du Louvre, Paris Jeune orpheline au cimetière…
(1571–1610) Michelangelo Merisi The artist’s works: Ragazzo che monda un frutto 1592–1593 Fondazione Roberto Longhi, Firenze Ragazzo che monda un frutto 1592–1593 Hampton Court Palace, London Ragazzo morso da un ramarro c.1594–1595 National Gallery, London Bacchino malato c.1595 Galleria Borghese, Roma…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La fragua de Vulcano (The Forge of Vulcan) 1630 Oil on canvas, 223 x 290 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A figure suddenly appears on the left in a forge where various blacksmiths are working, dressed in…
(c.1488–1576) Tiziano Vecellio di Gregorio The artist’s works: Adorazione dei Magi 1500s Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Adorazione di Gesù Bambino c.1506 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Jacopo Pesaro presentato a san Pietro da papa Alessandro VI 1506–1510 Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp…
(1696–1770) Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The artist’s works: Teste da un cammeo 1700s Rhode Island School of Design, Providence La regina Zenobia davanti all’imperatore Aureliano c.1717 Museo del Prado, Madrid Scipione l’Africano libera Massiva 1719–1721 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Madonna col Bambino c.1720–1725…
