Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di cavaliere con orologio (Portrait of a Knight with a Clock) c.1550 Oil on canvas, 122 x 101 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The unknown subject of this portrait has been identified, inconclusively, as either Gianello della Torre,…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Federico II Gonzaga (Portrait of Federico II Gonzaga) 1529 Oil on panel, 125 x 99 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid On 16 April 1529 Federico II Gonzaga, First Duke of Mantua (1500-1540), apologised to his uncle Alfonso…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Crocifissione (The Crucifixion) 1455 Oil on wood, 39 x 23.25 cm Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Paride (Paris) 1807–1816 Marble, 205 x 99 x 55 cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Terpsichore Lyran (Muse of Lyric Poetry) 1816 Marble, 177.5 x 78.1 x 61 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Trained by his grandfather, an Italian stonemason, Canova began modeling clay and carving marble sculptures before age ten. In…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Venus Italica c.1812 Marble, h. 178 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Amore e Psiche in piedi (Cupid and Psyche Standing) c.1797 Marble, height: 145.1 cm; width: 63 cm; depth: 56 cm; diameter: 74 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Apuleius (c.124-c.170): Psyche et Cupido (Latin)
Madrazo y Kuntz, Luis de (1825-1897) Isabel la Católica c.1848 Oil on canvas, 225 x 140.8 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Chronological Series of the Kings of Spain was a museum project planned in 1847 by José de Madrazo to adorn…
Raffaello (1483-1520) & assistants Visitazione (Visitation) c.1517 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 200 x 145 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Virgin Mary visits her cousin, Elisabeth, who is pregnant with Saint John, as told in the New Testament (Luke…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Ellen Andrée (Woman in Street Clothes) c.1879 Pastel on green-grey paper, 48.5 × 42 cm Private collection See also: • Andrée, Ellen (1857-1925)