Guercino (1591-1666) Il ritorno del figliol prodigo (The Return of the Prodigal Son) 1654–1655 Oil on canvas, 155.6 x 146.1 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego The parable depicted by Il Guercino (a nickname meaning “squint-eyed”) is the one most…
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) Garland with the Adoration of the Magi 16th–17th century Oil on copper, 35 x 29 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The flower garland frames an oval medallion with the Adoration of the Kings. Large flowers…
Bellini, Gentile (c.1429-1507) & Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Predica di San Marco in una piazza di Alessandria d’Egitto (Saint Mark Preaching in a Square of Alexandria in Egypt) 1504–1507 Oil on canvas, 347 x 770 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Portrait d’une femme coiffée d’un turban bleu (Portrait of a Woman in a Blue Turban) c.1827 Oil on canvas, 60.33 × 49.21 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In this portrait, Eugène Delacroix uses the familiar conventions…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Salomone e la regina di Saba (Solomon and the Queen of Sheba) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 58 x 205 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is one of seven canvases (P00386, P00388, P00389, P00393, P00394, P00395, P00396)…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Vieux Musicien (The Old Musician) 1862 Oil on canvas, 187.4 x 248.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a review of the 1846 Salon, poet and critic Charles Baudelaire urged artists to depict “the heroism…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Una giovane donna e il suo bambino (A Young Woman and Her Little Boy) c.1540 Oil on panel, 99.5 x 76 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman wearing a crimson-red brocade dress and gold jewelry fills…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Tre filosofi (Three Philosophers) 1508–1509 Oil on canvas, 125.5 × 146.2 × 3.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna “The oil painting with the three philosophers in a landscape, two standing and one sitting looking at the sun’s rays, with…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Mosè alla prova del fuoco (Moses undergoing Trial by Fire) 1505 Oil on panel, 89 cm x 72 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Bust of a Man in Oriental Dress 1633 Oil on oak, 85.8 x 63.8 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Paintings of individual figures in Holland in the seventeenth century that were neither portraits nor history paintings are called tronies…