Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) San Cristoforo (Saint Christopher and the Infant Christ) c.1473 Fresco, 284.5 x 149.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This imposing, well-preserved mural is an early work by Ghirlandaio, one of the most popular painters in late-fifteenth-century…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) San Girolamo (Saint Jerome) c.1482–1485 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 95 x 30.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Pietro Vannucci, called Perugino after the city in which he often lived, collaborated with other celebrated painters in one of the most…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Madonna col Bambino e santi (Madonna and Child with Saints) c.1411–1413 Tempera on panel, 43 x 22 cm San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Le compositeur Cherubini et la Muse de la poésie lyrique (The composer Cherubini and the Muse of lyric poetry) 1842 Oil on canvas, 105 x 94 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Cherubini seated, elbow resting on a…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Il ristoro miracoloso (The miraculous refreshment) 1604–1605 Fresco transferred to canvas, 126 x 230.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The paintings in the chapel paid for by the Spanish banker Juan Enríquez de Herrera in the church of Santiago…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Apparizione di San Diego sopra il suo sepolcro (Apparition of Saint Didacus above his sepulchre) 1604–1606 Fresco transferred to canvas Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona Mural Paintings from the Herrera Chapel.
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Apoteosi dell’apostolo Giacomo (The Apotheosis of the Apostle James) 1604–1605 Fresco transferred to canvas, 151.3 × 103.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The paintings in the chapel paid for by the Spanish banker Juan Enríquez de Herrera in the…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Le thérapeute (The Healer) 1967 Bronze, 152.4 × 137.2 × 87.3 cm Menil Collection, Houston
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le chant du berger (The Shepherd’s Song) 1891 Oil on canvas, 104.5 x 109.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Puvis adapted this composition from a mural that he made for the Musée des Beaux-Arts…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) La présentation de Jésus au Temple (The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1886–1894 Watercolor on paper, 22.2 x 15.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Forty days after the birth of Jesus, the Holy Family travels to Jerusalem…