Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Il Ratto di Proserpina (The Rape of Proserpina) 1621–1622 Marble, 255 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The work portrays the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, god of the underworld. Narrated by both Claudian and Ovid, the myth tells…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Enea, Anchise e Ascanio (Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius) 1619 Marble, h. 220 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This is the first large sculpture group produced by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Scipione Borghese, for which a payment receipt dating…
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…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Giovanni Battista (John the Baptist) c.1604 Oil on canvas, 172.5 x 104.5 cm Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Giovanni Battista (John the Baptist) c.1600 Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 83 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Sette opere di misericordia (Seven Works of Mercy) 1606–1607 Oil on canvas, 390 x 260 cm Pio Monte della Misericordia, Napoli
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Sepellimento di Santa Lucia (Burial of Saint Lucy) 1608 Oil on canvas, 408 x 300 cm Santa Lucia alla Badia, Siracusa
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist) c.1609–1610 Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 106.7 cm National Gallery, London The story of the death of Saint John the Baptist is related in the Gospel…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Flagellazione di Cristo (Flagellation of Christ) c.1606 Oil on canvas, 134 x 175.5 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen The Rouen Museum of Fine Arts owes this work, one of its masterpieces, to a highly inspired and relatively late purchase made…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) La Flagellazione di Cristo (Flagellation of Christ) 1607 Oil on canvas, 286 x 213 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli