Probably Perugino (c.1446-1523) Cristo coronato di spine (Christ Crowned with Thorns) c.1500–1505 Oil on wood, 40.3 x 32.4 cm National Gallery, London Christ is shown as a prisoner, a rope around his neck. He wears a crown of thorns and a purple…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (Christ and the Samaritan Woman) 1594–1595 Oil on canvas, 170 × 225 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Francesco Sampieri, a resident of Bologna who had fallen on hard times, sold the family picture…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) c.1604 Oil on canvas, diameter 82.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) San Sebastiano (St. Sebastian) c.1457–1459 Oil on poplar, 68 × 30 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Sebastian was the leader of the bodyguard of the Roman emperor Diocletian and was sentenced to death for his Christian faith. The saint…
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…
Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Liberación del peón (Liberation of the Peon) 1931 Fresco on cement, 185.4 × 239.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Diego Rivera’s Liberation of the Peon makes visible the cruel and exploitative Mexican peonage system, which kept agricultural workers…
Guercino (1591-1666) Cristo e la donna di Samaria al pozzo (Christ and the Woman of Samaria at the Well) c.1640–1641 Oil on canvas, 116 x 156 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The meeting between Christ and the woman of Samaria at the…
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Producer: Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay: Arthur Laurents Based on: Rope by Patrick Hamilton, adapted by Hume Cronyn Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Psychological | Thriller Music: David Buttolph Country: United States Language: English Studio: Warner Bros.…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Harbor of a Thousand Masts 1919 Oil on panel, 30.48 x 43.18 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Martirio di San Pietro (Martyrdom of St. Peter) 16th century Oil on canvas, 34.3 x 24 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires