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Ritratto di giovane con una lettera (1518)

Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Ritratto di giovane con una lettera (Portrait of a Young Man holding a Letter) 1518 Oil on wood, 85.5 x 66.5 cm National Gallery, London A young man glances up at us from the letter he has just been…

Cavaliere di San Giovanni (c.1523-1524)

Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Cavaliere di San Giovanni (A Knight of Saint John) c.1523–1524 Oil on poplar, 96.8 x 76.2 cm National Gallery, London The unknown man in this half-length portrait proudly displays an eight-pointed silver cross suspended from a black cord round…

Il gusto (c.1614-1616)

Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Il gusto (The Sense of Taste) c.1614–1616 Oil on canvas, 113.8 x 88.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This jolly, somewhat ragged figure is an embodiment of the sense of taste, and perhaps also an allusion to the sin…

Ritratto di giovane (c.1517-1518)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1517–1518 Oil on linen, 72.4 x 57.2 cm National Gallery, London We have interrupted a young man reading; he turns to look over his shoulder at us. The unguarded look…

Cherubini et la Muse de la poésie lyrique (1842)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Le compositeur Cherubini et la Muse de la poésie lyrique (The composer Cherubini and the Muse of lyric poetry) 1842 Oil on canvas, 105 x 94 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Cherubini seated, elbow resting on a…

Leconte de Lisle (c.1840-1841)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Leconte de Lisle c.1840–1841 Oil on canvas, 117 x 81 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Leconte de Lisle, Charles (1818-1894)

Piccola macelleria (c.1582)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Piccola macelleria (The Butcher’s Shop) c.1582 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 71 cm Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Around the time that he painted The Butcher’s Shop, in about 1582, Annibale Carracci joined his older cousin Ludovico and…