Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Portrait Study of a Young Lady c.1760–1765 Oil on canvas, 76.5 × 63 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Portrait Study of a Young Lady (c.1760-1765)
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Madonna col Bambino tra i santi Caterina e Tommaso (1527-1533)
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino tra i santi Caterina e Tommaso (Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine and Thomas) 1527–1533 Oil on canvas, 117 x 152 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The motif of a gathering of saints around the Madonna,…
Ritratto di Daniele Barbaro (1556-1562)
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Ritratto di Daniele Barbaro (Portrait of Daniele Barbaro) 1556–1562 Oil on canvas, 121 x 105.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Daniele Barbaro was a leading scholar of Aristotelian physics. He is shown in the ecclesiastical garments of a patriarch. Next…
Madonna dell’Umiltà (c.1440)
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Madonna dell’Umiltà (The Virgin of Humility) c.1440 Tempera on panel, 74 x 52 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam As a Dominican monk, Fra Angelico was not subject to the strict rules of the Florentine painters’ guild. He was thus free…
Portrait of a Couple (c.1622)
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Couple (Probably Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen) c.1622 Oil on canvas, 140 x 166.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam This happy, smiling pair sits comfortably close to each other. Posing a couple together in…
La lecture (c.1857)
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) La lecture (The Reading) c.1857 Oil on panel, 27 x 35 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Giovane donna nuda allo specchio (1515)
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Giovane donna nuda allo specchio (Young woman at her toilette) 1515 Oil on poplar panel, 62.9 x 78.3 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscription: “Joannes bellinus faciebat M.D.X.V.” As an elderly man, Bellini turned to the depiction of a…
Triptych August 1972 (1972)
Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) Triptych August 1972 1972 Oil paint and sand on 3 canvases, each: 198.1 × 147.3 cm Tate Britain, London © Estate of Francis Bacon This work is generally considered one in a series of Black Triptychs which followed the suicide…
Madonna delle Grazie (1st half of the 16th century)
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna delle Grazie (Our Lady of Grace) 1st half of the 16th century Oil on canvas Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Pompadour à sa toilette (1750)
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Pompadour à sa toilette (Pompadour at Her Toilette) 1750 Oil on canvas, 81.2 × 64.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721–1764), became the official mistress of Louis XV in 1745. Numerous portraits of her…