Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Maddalena penitente (The Penitent Mary Magdalene) c.1622–1628 Oil on canvas, 163 × 208 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower right: HORATIVS GENE …FLORENTINVS Fully possessed of her physical beauty, the repentant sinner lies on the ground in…
Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) Braque Triptych c.1452 Oil on wood, 41 x 68 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Closed: Left panel: Saint John the Baptist Central panel: Virgin Mary, Jesus and St John the Evangelist Right panel: St Mary Magdalene…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) La crocifissione (The Crucifixion) 1456–1459 Tempera on poplar, 76 x 96 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Central panel of the predella of the triptych commissioned by the apostolic prothonotary Gregorio Correr for the high altar of the church…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent Saint Jerome) 1546 Oil on canvas, 99 x 90 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Lorenzo Lotto‘s various depictions of the penitent Saint Jerome span early versions influenced by Albrecht Dürer and Giovanni Bellini (Musée…
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) San Girolamo (Saint Jerome) c.1638–1640 Oil on canvas, 129 x 100.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Saint Jerome (about ad 347–420) translated biblical texts into Latin. Although he sometimes appears as a scholar in his study,…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Scapegoat 1854–1855 oil on canvas, 33.7 x 45.9 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Vividly coloured depiction of a russet coloured goat on the brink of death. The goat stands in the centre foreground, head lowered, haunches caving…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Cristo en la cruz (Christ on the Cross) s.d. Pen and brown ink with brown wash, over black chalk, 33.5 x 23.6 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton One of Spain’s most celebrated seventeenth-century artists, Murillo painted numerous…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) San Girolamo penitente (The Penitent Saint Jerome) 1606 Oil on wood panel, 52.7 x 41.6 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton While in the Syrian desert (A.D. 374–379), Jerome was tempted by Satan (the monster in the crevice…
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…