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Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Netherlandish Proverbs 1559 Oil on oak panel, 117.2 x 163.8 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SHELFMARK / INSCRIPTION: Reference lower right: BRVEGEL • 1559 The picture brings together 100 proverbs and places them in surroundings that are as…

San Giovanni Battista (1508-1519)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) San Giovanni Battista (St John the Baptist) c.1508–1519 Oil on walnut panel, 72.9 x 56.3 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris This painting was probably designed around 1508 and kept by Leonardo da Vinci until his death, to slowly…

Saint Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía

(1510–1572) Francisco de Borja y Aragón 4th Duke of Gandía Saint Francis Borgia in Art: Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) San Francisco de Borja y el moribundo impenitente 1788 Catedral de Santa María, Valencia     Feast: • October 3 | October 10…

Saint Augustine of Hippo

(354–430) Works: • Confessiones (Latin) ◊ The Confessions (English) • Soliloquies (English) • The City of God, Volume I (English) • The City of God, Volume II (English) • Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy (English) Saint Augustine in Art: Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Crocifissione c.1440…

Louis IX (France)

(1214–1270) King of France (1226–1270) Churches: • San Luigi dei Francesi (Roma) See also: • France | French Monarchs | Monarchs | Saints

San Francesco in meditazione (c.1606)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Francesco in meditazione (Saint Francis in Meditation) c.1606 Oil on canvas, 130 x 90 cm cm Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona The subject represents a Saint Francis “in desperate meditation on the Crucifix” (Longhi 1943), the penitent saint is…

Salomè con la testa del Battista (c.1607)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome with the Head of John the Baptist) c.1607 Oil on canvas, 116 x 140 cm Palacio Real, Madrid The painting is in good condition after being restored by Patrimonio Nacional in 2015. It…

Vocazione dei santi Pietro e Andrea (c.1602-1604)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Vocazione dei santi Pietro e Andrea (Calling of Saints Andrew and Peter) c.1602–1604 Oil on canvas, 140.1 x 176 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London Christ gestures ahead while turning back to the brothers Simon (later Peter) and Andrew,…