Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto con Santa Giustina (Rest on the Flight into Egypt with St Justine) 1529–1530 Oil on canvas, 82 x 132.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The story of Saint Justine is full of puzzles…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco (Drunks, or The Triumph of Bacchus) 1778 Etching, drypoint, 39.5 x 46.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Inscription: “Pintura de Don Diego Velázquez con figuras del tamaño natural en el…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Garden Court 1870–1875 Graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache, on paper, 32.3 x 60.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Art historian Andrea Wolk Rager has interpreted this drawing as related to Edward Burne-Jones‘s socialist beliefs,…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Anacréon, Bacchus et l’Amour (Anacreon with the Infants Bacchus and Cupid) modeled 1878 (cast c.1893) Bronze, 72.4 × 43.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the early 19th century, industrial approaches to production created a new middle-class market for small-scale…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Séduction (Seduction, The Proposal) 1872 Oil on canvas, 163.5 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The motif of a young man at a window, wooing a woman at her spinning wheel, and the vaguely…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco (The Drunkards, or The Triumph of Bacchus) 1628–1629 Oil on canvas, 165 x 225 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Documentation of payment received by Velázquez in July 1629 for an…