Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Virgen Niña (The Young Virgin) c.1632–1633 Oil on canvas, 116.8 x 94 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York According to medieval legend, as a girl the Virgin Mary lived in the Temple in Jerusalem, where…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae after 1554 Oil on canvas, 135 x 152 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Akrisios, king of Argos, had his daughter locked in a tower because an oracle had prophesied that a grandson would kill him. Nevertheless, Jupiter became…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna tra i santi Giorgio e Dorotea (Virgin and Child with St. Dorothy and St. George) c.1515–1518 Oil on panel, 86 x 130 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The authorship, dating and iconography of this work are all controversial. It…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna della Melagrana (Madonna of the Pomegranate) 1487 Tempera on panel, diameter 143.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The Madonna and Child with Angels called “Madonna of the Pomegranate” is a 1487 panel on wood full of symbols and…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna del roseto (Madonna of the Rose Garden) 1469–1470 Tempera on panel, 124 x 64 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna della Rosa (Madonna of the Rose) c.1517 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 103 x 84 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The first verified Spanish documentation of Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist or Madonna of…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Limones, naranjas y rosa (Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose) 1633 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 109.5 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena This extraordinary painting by Zurbarán, the only signed and dated still life by…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Flora c.1517 Oil on canvas, 79.7 x 63.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze A young woman emerges from the brown background of the painting, holding out a bouquet of spring flowers, consisting of violets, rosebuds and jasmine. She is dressed…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere di Urbino (Venus of Urbino) 1538 Oil on canvas, 119 x 165 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze This is one of Titian’s most famous works and it depicts the emblematic figure of a young bride about to be dressed…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Las floreras, o La Primavera (The Flower Girls, or Spring) 1786 Oil on canvas, 277 x 192 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A young woman holding a girl by the hand receives a rose from another who kneels…