Tag: scene

The Allegory of Constancy (c.1685)

Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) The Allegory of Constancy c.1685 Oil on canvas, 126 x 123 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest The painter and significant art theorist was greatly influenced by the French neoclassicists, which later earned him the nickname of…

Flagellazione di Cristo (c.1641-1644)

Guercino (1591-1666) Flagellazione di Cristo (The Flagellation of Christ) c.1641–1644 Oil on canvas, 351 x 176.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Giovanni Francesco Barbieri eked out his first fifty years in his native town, day after day waiting for the death…

Escena de la Guerra de Independencia (after 1808)

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Escena de la Guerra de Independencia (A Scene from the Spanish War of Independence) after 1808 Oil on canvas, 69 × 107.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest The depicted scene has been interpreted in many ways over…

Tebaide (c.1417-1423)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Tebaide (Thebaid) c.1417–1423 Tempera on poplar, 73.7 × 105.5 × 2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest In fourteenth-century Italy new interest arose in the life of the early hermits who retired to the Theban and Nitrian deserts in…

Venere, Cupido e la gelosia (c.1550)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Venere, Cupido e la gelosia (Venus, Cupid and Jealousy) c.1550 Oil on poplar, 175.5 × 142 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest ‘The human eye cannot see like this,’ stated Wölfflin, the authoritative art historian, of Bronzino’s art. And…