Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Lorenzo (St Lawrence) 1636 Oil on canvas, 292 x 225 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Saint Lawrence is a splendid example of the austere laconic style of Francisco Zurbarán, who from 1628 was the chief…
Guercino (1591-1666) Visione di santa Chiara (Vision of St Clare) 1615–1621 Oil on canvas, 50 x 37.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Guercino (1591-1666) San Girolamo nel deserto (St Jerome in the Wilderness) c.1650 Oil on canvas, 217 x 164.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg St Jerome (c. 340-420) was a biblical scholar and one of the fathers of the Church and…
Guercino (1591-1666) Martirio di santa Caterina (Martyrdom of St Catherine) 1653 Oil on canvas, 222.5 x 159 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Guercino (1591-1666) Assunzione della Vergine (Assumption of the Virgin) 1st half of the 17th century Oil on canvas, 307 x 332 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 59 x 80 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far from Paris. Monet noted on September 25, “I…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Méry Laurent au carlin (Méry Laurent with a Pug) 1882 Pastel on canvas, 53 x 34 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow See also: • Méry Laurent (1849-1900)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’Antonin Proust (Portrait of Antonin Proust) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow See also: • Proust, Antonin (1832-1905)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae c.1554 Oil on canvas, 120 x 187 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Danaë is one of five paintings that the master produced on the subject of the popular Greek myth. An oracle told King Acrisius that he…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) San Girolamo (Saint Jerome) c.1498–1505 Tempera on canvas (transferred from panel), 44.5 x 26 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Botticelli’s work originally consisted of four parts: the two central ones carrying an Annunciation scene and the side wings with…