Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 120 x 102 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest “There is one man who makes easy what we have always been told is impossible; and that is Paolo…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) San Girolamo nel deserto (Saint Jerome in the Wilderness) c.1475–1480 Tempera on wood, 46.5 × 34.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) La Aguadora (The Water Carrier) c.1808–1812 Oil on canvas, 68 × 50.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Whether Goya was the last great old master or the first modern genius is a spurious dilemma: he did not…
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Santo Stefano Protomartire (Saint Stephen Protomartyr) c.1490–1493 Tempera and gold on wood, 191 × 56 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Nadar (1820-1910) George Sand 1864 Photograph, 10.5 x 6.5 cm Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris See also: • Sand, George (1804-1876)
Nadar (1820-1910) Honoré Daumier 1856–1858 Salted paper print, 24.4 x 17.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This portrait of the renowned caricaturist and painter Honoré Daumier was possibly not a commissioned work, but the result of a voluntary engagement with a…
Nadar (1820-1910) Femme nue debout (Standing Female Nude) 1860–1861 Salted paper print from glass negative, 20.2 x 13.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Famed for his portraits of writers, artists, and left-wing politicians, Nadar is known to have photographed only…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di giovane gentiluomo (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1527 Oil on canvas, 97 x 110 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Pietro Aretino (Portrait of Pietro Aretino) 1545 Oil on canvas, 96.7 × 77.6 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze This portrait of Pietro Aretino was painted by Titian in early 1545 and was later donated by the Tuscan poet,…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Self-Portrait c.1620–1621 Oil on canvas, 119.7 x 87.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Lifting a languid hand to his chin, the young Van Dyck presents himself as an aristocrat, excluding any signs of his trade…