Tag: water

Il Ritrovamento di Mosè (1560s?)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Il Ritrovamento di Mosè (The Finding of Moses) 1560s? Oil on canvas, 77.5 x 134 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The biblical story of the Finding of Moses was popular in Venice. Tintoretto gives it…

La conversione di san Paolo (c.1544)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) La conversione di san Paolo (The Conversion of Saint Paul) c.1544 Oil on canvas, 152.7 x 236.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Before he became known as Saint Paul, Saul was a persecutor of Christians. This…

Mosè salvato dalle acque (c.1555)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Mosè salvato dalle acque (Moses Saved from the Waters) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 56 x 119 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is one of seven canvases (P00386, P00388, P00389, P00393, P00394, P00395, P00396) in a group…

Lavanda dei piedi (1548-1549)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Lavanda dei piedi (Washing of the Feet) 1548–1549 Oil on canvas, 210 x 533 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This scene from the New Testament (John 13, 1-20) shows the moment just before the Last Supper, when…

The Evening of the Deluge (c.1843)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Evening of the Deluge c.1843 Oil on canvas, 76 x 76 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A butter-yellow sky fills the top two-thirds of this square landscape painting while in the bottom third,…

Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (1835)

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…