Tag: reflection

Maddalena penitente (1560s)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Maddalena penitente (Penitent Magdalene) 1560s Oil on canvas, 119 x 97 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Titian turned to the subject of the repentant Mary Magdalene on several occasions, but this version he kept for himself in his…

Venere allo specchio (c.1555)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere allo specchio (Venus with a Mirror) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 124.5 x 105.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Titian’s goddess of love and beauty conjures the sense of touch. Observing her flushed cheek, one can almost feel its…

Venere allo specchio (c.1555)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere allo specchio (Venus with a Mirror) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 101 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere allo specchio c.1555 National Gallery of Art, Washington    

Pietro Aretino (c.1537)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Pietro Aretino c.1537 Oil on canvas, 101.9 × 85.7 cm Frick Collection, New York See also: • Aretino, Pietro (1492-1556)

Il gusto (c.1614-1616)

Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Il gusto (The Sense of Taste) c.1614–1616 Oil on canvas, 113.8 x 88.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This jolly, somewhat ragged figure is an embodiment of the sense of taste, and perhaps also an allusion to the sin…

L’unione felice (c.1575)

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegorie dell’amore: L’unione felice (Four Allegories of Love: Happy Union) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 187.4 x 186.7 cm National Gallery, London This is one of a series of four paintings by Veronese that concern the trials and rewards of…

Ritratto d’uomo (1528-1529)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) 1528–1529 Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 66.7 x 50.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is probably the “natural seeming and very beautiful” portrait of a canon from Pisa…

Ritratto di giovane (c.1517-1518)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1517–1518 Oil on linen, 72.4 x 57.2 cm National Gallery, London We have interrupted a young man reading; he turns to look over his shoulder at us. The unguarded look…