Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent Saint Jerome) 1546 Oil on canvas, 99 x 90 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Lorenzo Lotto‘s various depictions of the penitent Saint Jerome span early versions influenced by Albrecht Dürer and Giovanni Bellini (Musée…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Persée et Andromède (Perseus and Andromeda) c.1819 Oil on canvas, 19.7 × 16.2 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Cristo cargando la cruz (Christ Bearing the Cross) c.1665–1675 Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) La Sacra Famiglia con San Giovanni Battista e Santa Margherita (The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Margaret) 1495 Tempera and oil on wood, diameter 153 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Lippi‘s sophisticated composition…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Lion aux aguets (Lion on the Watch) c.1885 Oil on wood panel, 72.3 x 100.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In addition to his fascination with the classical past, Gérôme was one of the leading painters of…
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Lot e le sue figlie (Lot and His Daughters) c.1622 Oil on canvas, 151.8 × 189.2 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles From the safety of the cave where they have taken refuge, Lot’s daughters appear absorbed by an…
El Greco (1541-1614) La Agonía en el huerto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1590–1595 Oil on canvas, 102.2 x 113.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Sunlight on the Coast 1890 Oil on canvas, 116.8 × 163.8 × 12.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Winslow Homer skillfully conveys nature’s power with almost violent stabs and dabs of his brush representing waves crashing against…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Paysage près d’Ornans (Landscape Near Ornans) 1864 Oil on canvas, 88.8 x 127.2 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “To paint a land you have to know it. I know my land and I paint it. That undergrowth—it…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Perseus and Andromeda (study for The Doom Fulfilled) 1875 Gouache with gold paint on board, 33 x 30.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Compare: Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Doom Fulfilled 1888 Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart