Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Woman 1633 Oil on wood, 67.9 x 50.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The sitter’s identity is unknown, as in many Rembrandt portraits of the 1630s. During that decade in Amsterdam the painter was…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Man 1632 Oil on wood, 75.6 x 52.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted just after Rembrandt’s arrival in Amsterdam, this well-preserved portrait reveals the talent that enabled the young artist to quickly make…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Baertje Martens c.1640 Oil on oak panel, 76 x 56 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Companion: Rembrandt (1606-1669) Herman Doomer 1640 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Martens, Baertje (1596-1678)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Herman Doomer 1640 Oil on wood, 75.2 x 55.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Herman Doomer was a successful cabinetmaker who worked with the imported ebony fashionable in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The exceptional care Rembrandt took with this…
Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Ritratto di Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani (Portrait of Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani) c.1595 Oil on canvas, 114.62 x 94.62 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Ginevra Aldrovandi’s husband, the Bolognese senator Ercole Hercolani, died in 1593. Her elaborate mourning costume-with costly…
Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) Ritratto di nobildonna (Portrait of a Noblewoman) c.1580 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 88.9 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Marriage Portrait of a Bolognese Noblewoman (Livia de’ Medici Bandini?) illustrates Lavinia Fontana’s ability to…
Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Autoritratto allo scrittoio (Self-Portrait in a Studio) 1579 Oil on copper, diam. 15.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Madonna del Rosario (Our Lady of the Rosary) c.1601 Oil on canvas, 364.5 × 249.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Our Lady invites St. Dominic to distribute rosaries to the people. St Peter Martyr points to the source of all graces,…