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) Ritratto di uomo con scimmia (Portrait of man with monkey) 1590–1591 Oil on canvas, 68 x 58.3 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
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…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Infanta Margarita Teresa con vestido rosa (Infanta Margarita Teresa in pink dress) 1654 Oil on canvas, 128 × 99.6 × 3.2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Margarita was the first child of the marriage between King Philip IV and his…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Infanta Margarita Teresa con vestido azul (Infanta Margarita Teresa in blue dress) 1659 Oil on canvas, 125.5 × 106 × 3 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna One year before his death Velázquez created this portrait of the eight-year old…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Hélène Fourment (“The Furry”) c.1636–1638 Oil on oak, 178.7 × 86.2 × 2.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The posture of Rubens‘ second wife Helena Fourment (1614-1674, married in 1630) is reminiscent of the type of the ancient…
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Cardinal Niccolò Albergati? c.1438 Oil on oak, 34 × 29.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna During a peace congress in Arras in 1435, van Eyck made a silverpoint drawing (Dresden), in which he not only recorded the physiognomy…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Bravo (The Bravo) c.1515–1520 Oil on canvas, 77 × 66.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Titian intensifies the close-up half-figure action picture developed by his teacher Giorgione into concentrated drama. The three-quarter portrait of the vine-leafed protagonist contrasts with the…