David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Marat Assassiné (Marat Assassinated) 1793 Oil on canvas, 165 x 128 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels See also: • Marat, Jean-Paul (1743-1793)
Marat Assassiné (1793)
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Self-Portrait (1623)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Self-Portrait 1623 Oil on panel, 85.7 x 62.2 x 0.5 cm Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace, London This painting seems to have been something of a face-saver. In 1621 Rubens supplied Lord Danvers with a Lion Hunt (now lost),…
Interno metafisico con biscotti (1916)
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Interno metafisico con biscotti (Metaphysical Interior with Biscuits) 1916 Oil on canvas, 81.3 × 65.1 cm Menil Collection, Houston
La légende des siècles (1952)
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La légende des siècles (The Legend of the Centuries) 1952 Gouache on card, 17.8 × 14.9 cm Menil Collection, Houston
Le paysage de Baucis (1966)
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Le paysage de Baucis (Baucis’s Landscape) 1966 Oil on canvas, 55.6 × 45.7 cm Menil Collection, Houston
Stag Hunt of Elector Frederick the Wise (1529)
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Stag Hunt of Elector Frederick the Wise 1529 Oil on lime, 80 × 114 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Among Cranach’s duties as saxon court painter was to preserve important scenes of courtly life in his pictures.…
Self-portrait (c.1638)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Self-portrait c.1638 Oil on canvas, 110 × 85.5 × 2.4 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscription: P.P. RUBINS (!) added later on the left of the column Despite his great successes, Rubens was always ambivalent about court life.…
San Sebastiano (c.1457-1459)
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) San Sebastiano (St. Sebastian) c.1457–1459 Oil on poplar, 68 × 30 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Sebastian was the leader of the bodyguard of the Roman emperor Diocletian and was sentenced to death for his Christian faith. The saint…
Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman (1505)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman 1505 Spruce, 33 × 24.5 × 2.7 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at the top in the middle with the monogram, dat. 1505 We don’t know who the charming young lady is,…
Madonna del Prato (1505-1506)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna del Prato (Madonna of the meadow) 1505–1506 Oil on poplar, 113 × 88.3 × 3.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscription on the hem of Mary’s dress with the year M.d.V. (perhaps also M.D.V.I. to be read) The group,…