Tag: sky

Crocifissione (c.1587-1588)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Crocifissione (The Crucifixion) c.1587–1588 Oil on canvas laid on panel, 81.5 × 61.5 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

La sepoltura di Cristo (1595)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) La sepoltura di Cristo (The Burial of Christ) 1595 Oil on copper, 43.8 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This deeply moving picture was painted for one of Carracci’s patrons, Astorre di Vincenzo Sampieri, a…

San Giovanni Battista rende testimonianza (c.1600)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) San Giovanni Battista rende testimonianza (Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness) c.1600 Oil on copper, 54.3 x 43.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Annibale launched the vogue for landscapes in which nature is transformed by the…

L’estasi di Maria Maddalena (1585-1600)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) L’estasi di Maria Maddalena (The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene) 1585–1600 Oil on panel, 37.5 x 29.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid According to the Golden Legend, after the death of Christ his follower Mary Magdalene moved to the…

Assunzione della Vergine (1588-1590)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Assunzione della Vergine (The Assumption of the Virgin) 1588–1590 Oil on canvas, 130 × 97 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Annibale Carracci’s Assumption of the Virgin now in the Museo del Prado is first mentioned in the so-called…

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.…

Vista di Vienna dal Belvedere (1758-1761)

Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Vista di Vienna dal Belvedere (Vienna Viewed from the Belvedere Palace) 1758–1761 Oil on canvas, 135 × 213 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna This view of Vienna from the Upper Belvedere Palace, the summer palace of Prince Eugene of…