Rembrandt (1606-1669) Aristotle and Bust of Homer 1653 Oil on canvas, 143.5 x 136.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Among The Met’s most celebrated works of art, this painting conveys Rembrandt’s meditation on the meaning of fame. The richly…
Guercino (1591-1666) Abramo ripudia Agar e Ismaele (Abraham casting out Hagar and Ishmael) 1657 Oil on canvas, 115 x 154 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Guercino sets the story of Abraham, aged 100, casting out the slave Hagar and their…
Guercino (1591-1666) Sibilla Cumana con putto (The Cumaean Sibyl with a Putto) 1651 Oil on canvas, 222 x 168.5 cm National Gallery, London The Cumaean Sibyl is one of 12 pagan sibyls, or prophetesses, said to have foretold the coming…
Guercino (1591-1666) Agar e Ismaele nel deserto confortati dall’angelo (The Angel appears to Hagar and Ishmael) 1652–1653 Oil on canvas, 193 x 229 cm National Gallery, London The story of Hagar and Ishmael is told in the Old Testament (Genesis…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Girl in White 1890 Oil on canvas, 66.7 x 45.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Isabella del Portogallo (Portrait of Isabella of Portugal) 1548 Oil on canvas, 117 cm x 98 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The portraits that Titian painted of Isabella (1503-1539), daughter of King Manuel of Portugal and wife…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di Esmeralda Brandini (Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli) c.1470–1480 Tempera on panel, 65.7 x 41 cm Victoria & Albert Museum, London Sandro Botticelli (1444/5-1510) was trained in Florence in the studio of Fra Filippo Lippi…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Giuliano de’ Medici c.1478–1480 Tempera on panel, 75.5 x 52.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the chest up, a man with pale, yellow-tinged skin is angled to our right with downcast eyes in this vertical portrait…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) 1478 Oil on walnut panel, 20.4 x 14.5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin An inconspicuous note, stuck as if by chance to the parapet in the foreground, states the year in…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Niccolini-Cowper (The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna) 1508 Oil on panel, 80.7 x 57.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Inscription: center right on border of Madonna’s bodice: MDVIII.R.V.PIN (1508 Raphael of Urbino painted it) A woman holds and looks toward…