Tag: stone

Pietà (c.1603)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Pietà c.1603 Oil on copper, 41.3 x 60.7 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Overwhelmed by her helplessness and pain, Mary holds her dead son in her lap. Pale colours and the pathos of marbles by Michelangelo and from antiquity…

Madonna di Manchester (c.1494)

Michelangelo (1475-1564) Madonna di Manchester (Manchester Madonna: The Virgin and Child with Saint John and Angels) c.1494 Tempera on wood, 104.5 × 77 cm National Gallery, London This picture – known as ‘The Manchester Madonna’ since 1857, when it was exhibited in the…

Maddalena penitente (c.1622-1628)

Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Maddalena penitente (The Penitent Mary Magdalene) c.1622–1628 Oil on canvas, 163 × 208 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower right: HORATIVS GENE …FLORENTINVS Fully possessed of her physical beauty, the repentant sinner lies on the ground in…

Pompiers ruraux (1857)

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Pompiers ruraux (Rural Firefighters) 1857 Oil on canvas, 179 x 228 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Paysannes aux broussailles (c.1852)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Paysannes aux broussailles (Peasant Women with Brushwood) c.1852 Oil on canvas, 37.5 x 29.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Millet devoted his talent to the depiction of scenes from peasant life, and this is a typical example of his…

Port en Bessin, La Plage (1884)

Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Port-en-Bessin, La Plage (Port-en-Bessin, The Beach) 1884 Oil on canvas, 46 x 64.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection This study remained in the artist’s studio for a long time, and was sold fairly late,…

San Girolamo penitente (c.1575)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) San Girolamo penitente (The Penitent Saint Jerome) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 137 x 97 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) San Girolamo penitente 1550–1555 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano     The Penitent Saint Jerome is dated to the final…

Parnaso (4th quarter of the 15th century)

Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Parnaso (Parnassus) 4th quarter of the 15th century Tempera on canvas, 159 x 192 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Commissioned during the winter of 1496–1497 by Isabelle d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua (1474-1539) for the decoration of her first studiolo…