Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Exposición del cuerpo de San Buenaventura (Exhibition of the Body of Saint Bonaventure) c.1629 Oil on canvas, 245 x 220 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted for the church of the San Buenaventura college in Seville, around 1629;…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) La Inmaculada Concepción (The Immaculate Conception) 1662–1665 Oil on canvas, 172 x 298 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Inscription: On the phylactery held by two angels: “IN PRINCIPIO DILEXIT EAM”. Part of a series of four large…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Jeune fille chrétienne (Young Christian Girl) 1894 Oil on canvas, 65.3 x 46.7 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown See also: • Bretagne (France)
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le Juif priant (The Praying Jew) 1923 Oil on canvas, 116.8 × 89.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Signed, l.r.: “MArc / ChAgAll” Marc Chagall had…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Adorazione dei pastori Allendale (The Adoration of the Shepherds) 1505–1510 Oil on panel, 90.8 x 110.5 cm cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Four people with pale skin are gathered to our right in a landscape, their heads…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Ascension of Christ 1636 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 68.3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The so-called ‘Passion Cycle’ was painted for the stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. The six paintings…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Adoration of the Shepherds 1646 Oil on canvas, 97 x 71.3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The so-called ‘Passion Cycle’ was painted for the stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. The…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) 1891 Oil on canvas, 113.7 x 87.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Before embarking on a series of pictures inspired by Polynesian religious beliefs, Gauguin devoted this, his first major Tahitian…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Virgen Niña (The Young Virgin) c.1632–1633 Oil on canvas, 116.8 x 94 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York According to medieval legend, as a girl the Virgin Mary lived in the Temple in Jerusalem, where…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) 1478–1482 Tempera and oil on panel, 68 x 102 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington About three dozen people gather in a grassy field to either side of a crumbling structure to…