Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Femme au balcon (Woman at a Balcony) 1887–1888 Oil on canvas, 50.2 × 41.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Seen from below as if from street level and posed seductively in a revealing costume, this woman is…
Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757) Giovane donna con un pappagallo (A Young Lady with a Parrot) c.1730 Pastel on paper, mounted on laminated paper board, 60 x 50 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Rosalba Carriera is renowned for the distinction she brought…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus Frigida (Cold Venus) 1614 Oil on panel, 143 x 184 x 3.8 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp The title refers to Terence: “sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus” (“without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes”)…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria c.1630 Oil on canvas, 109.2 x 90.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The infant Jesus responds with playful enthusiasm to an adoring Saint Catherine, a princess identified by…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Trionfo della Castità e Amore sconfitto (Triumph of Chastity: Love Disarmed and Bound) c.1509 Fresco, detached and mounted on canvas, 125.7 x 133.4 cm National Gallery, London This picture, painted in fresco (directly onto wet plaster), was part…
Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513) Madonna col Bambino benedicente (The Virgin and Blessing Child) c.1480 Tempera on wood, 53.5 x 35.5 cm National Gallery, London Presented by Queen Victoria at the Prince Consort’s wish, 1863. Pintoricchio painted a number of images of the Virgin…
Pontormo (1494-1557) Ritratto di Maria Salviati con Giulia de’ Medici (Portrait of Maria Salviati de’ Medici and Giulia de’ Medici) c.1539 Oil on panel, 88 x 71.3 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore See also: • Medici, Giulia de’ (c.1535-c.1588) | Salviati, Maria…