Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) Passion Triptych c.1510–1520 Oil and gold on panel, 150.5 x 334.5 cm Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia Left panel: Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) Arrest of Jesus c.1510–1520 Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia Central panel: Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) Crowning…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Antro dell’eternità (The Cave of Eternity) early 1680s Oil on canvas, 73.1 x 87.5 cm National Gallery, London This modello, or detailed oil study, is one of a group of twelve – ten of which are in the National Gallery…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Allegoria della Fortezza (Allegory of Fortitude) early 1680s Oil on canvas, 95 x 99.2 cm National Gallery, London This modello, or detailed oil study, is one of a group of 12 – ten of which are in the National Gallery’s…
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Natività (Nativity) c.1585–1594 Oil on canvas, 111 x 80 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires The Virgin, reclining on a hay mattress, contemplates the Child Jesus lying on a blue cloth. Saint Joseph, on the…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight 1835 Oil on canvas, 92.3 x 122.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Joseph Mallord William Turner excelled at capturing the beauty and mysteries of light. Cool, white moonlight…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Selene and Endymion c.1680 Oil on canvas, 177 x 118.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The chaste goddess of the moon, Selene (or Diana), is in love with the shepherd Endymion. Only at night when he is asleep does…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Guerre (War, or Discord on Horseback) c.1894 Oil on canvas, 114.5 x 195 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris More than twenty years after the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870 and the Commune in 1871 when the Douanier Rousseau painted War,…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Dormition of the Virgin c.1564 Oil on panel, 67.7 x 85.3 x 12.6 cm Upton House and Gardens, England This ‘grisaille’, or grey monochrome painting, shows the death of the Virgin, attended by the…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Sette opere di misericordia (Seven Works of Mercy) 1606–1607 Oil on canvas, 390 x 260 cm Pio Monte della Misericordia, Napoli