Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritratto di senatore (Portrait of a Senator) c.1570 Oil on canvas, 118.5 x 100 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid In the 1570s Tintoretto considerably expanded his artistic activity by increasing the number of commissions executed by his studio. During…
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) La Fenêtre (The Window) 1925 Oil on canvas, 108.6 × 88.6 cm Tate Britain, London In this work, Bonnard unites interior and exterior in the strong sunlight of the South of France. It was made in a rented apartment…
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Ritratto di ragazzo (Portrait of a Boy, Guidobaldo Da Montefeltro?) c.1483 Tempera on panel, 41 x 27.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid According to James Dennistoun, this small portrait on panel was in the collection of Giuseppe Crosti,…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) s.d. Oil on panel, 43 x 35 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Within Lotto’s oeuvre both religious compositions and portraits occupy significant positions, and the artist introduced notable innovations in the latter genre. Born in Venice, it…
Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) Self-Portrait 1942 Pen, ink, charcoal and gouache on paper, 62.23 x 45.72 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di un giovane come San Sebastiano (Portrait of a young Man as Saint Sebastian) c.1533 Oil on panel, 87 x 76.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori, known as Bronzino, was one of the…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) San Girolamo penitente (The Penitent Saint Jerome) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 137 x 97 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The Penitent Saint Jerome is dated to the final period of Titian’s career. During these years Titian continued to paint masterpieces,…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1574 Oil on poplar, 216 x 166 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Ritratto di Sigismondo Malatesta, signore di Rimini (Portrait of Sigismund Malatesta, Lord of Rimini) c.1451 Oil on wood, 44.9 x 34 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Undoubtedly the first thought in view of the fresco of the…
Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Studio di un giovane cervo sdraiato (Study of a young deer lying down, in profile, to the right) s.d. Tempera on irregularly cut paper, 12.4 x 17.7 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris