Tag: Saint

Polittico di San Luca (1453-1455)

Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Polittico di San Luca (Saint Luke Polyptych) 1453–1455 Tempera on panel, 177 x 230 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The Altarpiece of San Luca was made for the church of Santa Giustina in Padua from 1453 to…

San Francisco en meditación (1632)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) 1632 Oil on canvas, 114 x 78 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires In the iconography of St Francis of Assisi, which began shortly after his…

Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)

Fratello sole, sorella luna Director: Franco Zeffirelli Producer: Dyson Lovell, Luciano Perugia Screenplay: Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Kenneth Ross Genre: Drama | Historical Music: Riz Ortolani Country: Italia | United Kingdom Language: English Studio: Paramount Pictures Release date: 1972 Running time:…

Santa Lucía (1625-1630)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Santa Lucía (Saint Lucy) c.1625–1630 Oil on canvas, 104.14 × 77 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Few images of saints show women as gorgeously attired as Francisco de Zurbarán‘s. His Saint Lucy portrays the young…

Madonna e Bambino con santi (c.1540)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Madonna e Bambino con santi (The Madonna and Child with Saints) c.1540 Oil on wood, 101.6 x 81.3 cm National Gallery, London Elderly Saint Elizabeth looks down over the Virgin Mary’s shoulder at her son Saint John the…

An Elderly Man as Saint Paul (1659)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) An Elderly Man as Saint Paul probably 1659 Oil on canvas, 102 x 85.5 cm National Gallery, London Between the late 1650s and early 1660s Rembrandt painted a series of intimate half-length pictures of religious figures. He seems…