Tag: Saint Joseph

The Adoration of the Magi (c.1475)

Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) The Adoration of the Magi c.1475 Oil and gold on oak, 71.1 x 56.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This tranquil scene, with its tunneling perspective and sensitively rendered faces, is characteristic of Bosch’s works before…

La fuga in Egitto (1701)

Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La fuga in Egitto (The Flight into Egypt) 1701 Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 48.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1692 Giordano was summoned to Spain as court painter to King Charles II. Charles was succeeded in…

Adorazione dei Magi (1423)

Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) 1423 Tempera on panel, 300 × 282 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Predella: Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) La presentazione al tempio c.1423 Musée du Louvre, Paris    

Natività (c.1420-1422)

Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Natività (Nativity) c.1420–1422 Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 72.1 × 42.6 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles In this painting Gentile da Fabriano combined several different devotional and biblical subjects: the Madonna of Humility, the Nativity, and the…

Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina (1547-1548)

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina (The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria) 1547–1548 Oil on canvas, 145.5 × 205 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Compare: Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina c.1547–1550 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven…

Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina (c.1547-1550)

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina (The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria) c.1547–1550 Oil on canvas, 57.8 × 91.4 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Compare: Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina 1547–1548 Hermitage Museum, Saint…

Sacra Famiglia con san Giovannino (c.1528)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Sacra Famiglia con san Giovannino (The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist) c.1528 Oil on wood, 135.9 x 100.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York With this grandly solemn composition, Sarto demonstrated that…