Tag: shadow

Poetry (1879)

Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Poetry 1879 Oil on wood panel National Museum Wales, Cardiff Pair: Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Prose 1879 National Museum Wales, Cardiff    

Una taza de agua y una rosa (c.1630)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Una taza de agua y una rosa (A Cup of Water and a Rose) c.1630 Oil on canvas, 21.2 × 30.1 cm National Gallery, London In this small and intimate painting – it only measures around 20 by…

Santa Margarita de Antioquía (1630-1634)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Santa Margarita de Antioquía (Saint Margaret of Antioch) 1630–1634 Oil on canvas, 163 × 105 cm National Gallery, London The fourth-century saint Margaret was said to come from the city of Antioch. Her father, a pagan priest, cast…

San Francisco en meditación (1635-1639)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) 1635–1639 Oil on canvas, 152 × 99 cm National Gallery, London This is one of Zurbarán’s most austere and intensely spiritual works. He shows Saint Francis in a moment of…

San Francisco en meditación (1639)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) 1639 Oil on canvas, 162 × 137 cm National Gallery, London In this moving painting, Saint Francis is shown meditating in a landscape. His cowl (or hood) is pulled…

Madonna col Bambino e due angeli (c.1467-1469)

Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) Madonna col Bambino e due angeli (The Virgin and Child with Two Angels) c.1467–1469 Tempera on wood, 69.2 × 49.8 cm National Gallery, London The focus of this picture is the loving gaze which passes between the…

The Magdalen Reading (c.1435)

Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) The Magdalen Reading c.1435 Oil on mahogany, transferred from another panel, 62.2 × 54.4 cm National Gallery, London A young lady in an extravagant green dress sits on the floor, reading. Although she wears fifteenth-century clothing…

San Giorgio e il drago (c.1555)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 158.3 × 100.5 cm National Gallery, London Saint George plunges his lance into the jaws of the dragon which, according to legend, inhabited the…

Tisaferno e Vafrino (c.1740-1746)

Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Tisaferno e Vafrino (Tisaferno and Vafrino) c.1740–1746 Oil on canvas, 158.8 × 53 cm National Gallery, London Two men in turbans are seated under a tree that provides little shade. One has his back to us; the other, who…