Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Sant’Antonio di Padova con Gesù Bambino (St. Anthony of Padua and the Child Jesus) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 225 x 176 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) wears a Franciscan habit and meditates…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) L’Olimpo, o Trionfo di Venere (The Olympus or Triumph of Venus) 1761–1764 Oil on canvas, 87 x 61.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is a sketch for a no-longer extant painting on canvas intended to decorate…
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) Danae 1636 Oil on canvas, 185 x 202.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Love undoubtedly also inspired Rembrandt to produce Danaë. The subject was taken from the ancient myth about a princess of Argos, whose father, the king, was…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Maternal Love (Caritas) c.1685 Oil on canvas, 57 x 48.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
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…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Mercury Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus c.1680 Oil on canvas, 132 x 96 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam During his wanderings, Odysseus encounters the nymph Calypso, who falls in love with him and holds him captive on her island.…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Odysseus and Calypso c.1680 Oil on canvas, 125 x 94 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The Greek poet Homer recounts how the heroic warrior Odysseus found refuge on the island of the nymph Calypso. The Trojan War is over:…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Selene and Endymion c.1680 Oil on canvas, 177 x 118.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The chaste goddess of the moon, Selene (or Diana), is in love with the shepherd Endymion. Only at night when he is asleep does…