Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) c.1604 Oil on canvas, diameter 82.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (c.1604)
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Agonia nell’orto (c.1596-1597)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Agonia nell’orto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1596–1597 Oil on panel, 39.1 x 30.3 Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
Madonna col Bambino, Santa Lucia e San Giovannino (c.1587-1588)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Madonna col Bambino, Santa Lucia e San Giovannino (The Madonna and Child with Saint Lucy and the Young Saint John the Baptist) c.1587–1588 Oil on panel, 78.8 x 62.7 cm Private collection
L’estasi di Maria Maddalena (1585-1600)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) L’estasi di Maria Maddalena (The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene) 1585–1600 Oil on panel, 37.5 x 29.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid According to the Golden Legend, after the death of Christ his follower Mary Magdalene moved to the…
Assunzione della Vergine (1588-1590)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Assunzione della Vergine (The Assumption of the Virgin) 1588–1590 Oil on canvas, 130 × 97 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Annibale Carracci’s Assumption of the Virgin now in the Museo del Prado is first mentioned in the so-called…
Venus and Adonis (mid-1630s)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 242.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s…
Cupid as Link Boy (1774)
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…
L’angelo della fama (c.1750)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) L’angelo della fama (The Angel of Fame) c.1750 Fresco, mounted on canvas, 198.1 x 330.8 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Tentazioni di sant’Antonio Abate (c.1598)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Tentazioni di sant’Antonio Abate (Christ appearing to Saint Anthony Abbot during his Temptation) c.1598 Oil on copper, 49.5 x 34.4 cm National Gallery, London A bearded man in a hair robe is being violently threatened by a horde…
La Inmaculada Concepción (1662-1665)
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) La Inmaculada Concepción (The Immaculate Conception) 1662–1665 Oil on canvas, 172 x 298 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Inscription: On the phylactery held by two angels: “IN PRINCIPIO DILEXIT EAM”. Part of a series of four large…