Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Sacra Famiglia con le sante Anna e Caterina d’Alessandria (The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria) 1648 Oil on canvas, 209.6 x 154.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A masterpiece of the artist’s…
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Le lacrime di San Pietro (The Tears of Saint Peter) c.1612–1613 Oil on canvas, 161.9 x 114.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Spanish by birth, Ribera moved to Italy when he was fourteen or fifteen. He…
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Il tatto (The Sense of Touch) c.1615–1616 Oil on canvas, 115.9 x 88.3 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) San Sebastiano curato da Irene (Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene and Her Companions) c.1660 Oil on canvas, 151.1 x 199.1 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Il gusto (The Sense of Taste) c.1614–1616 Oil on canvas, 113.8 x 88.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This jolly, somewhat ragged figure is an embodiment of the sense of taste, and perhaps also an allusion to the sin…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La fuga in Egitto (The Flight into Egypt) 1701 Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 48.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1692 Giordano was summoned to Spain as court painter to King Charles II. Charles was succeeded in…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Annunciazione (The Annunciation) 1672 Oil on canvas, 236.5 x 169.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Giordano was the leading painter in Naples in the late seventeenth century and one of the most sought-after Italian artists of…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Diana ed Endimione (Diana and Endymion) c.1675–1680 Oil on canvas, 149.2 x 164 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Natività (Nativity) c.1420–1422 Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 72.1 × 42.6 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles In this painting Gentile da Fabriano combined several different devotional and biblical subjects: the Madonna of Humility, the Nativity, and the…
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Incoronazione della Vergine (Coronation of the Virgin) c.1420 Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 93 × 64.1 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles The mood is one of lavish ceremony, as Christ places an ornate gold crown upon…