Guercino (1591-1666) Sibilla Cumana con putto (The Cumaean Sibyl with a Putto) 1651 Oil on canvas, 222 x 168.5 cm National Gallery, London The Cumaean Sibyl is one of 12 pagan sibyls, or prophetesses, said to have foretold the coming…
Guercino (1591-1666) Agar e Ismaele nel deserto confortati dall’angelo (The Angel appears to Hagar and Ishmael) 1652–1653 Oil on canvas, 193 x 229 cm National Gallery, London The story of Hagar and Ishmael is told in the Old Testament (Genesis…
Guercino (1591-1666) Cristo morto compianto dagli angeli (Dead Christ mourned by Two Angels) c.1617–1618 Oil on copper, 36.8 x 44.4 cm National Gallery, London This small painting depicts a solemn religious scene. Two angels kneel in quiet contemplation next to…
Guercino (1591-1666) Amor virtuoso (Cupid Spurning Riches) c.1653 Oil on canvas, 99 x 75 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The papal nuncio to Spain, Camillo Massimo (1620–1677), presented Guercino’s Cupid spurning Riches and Guido Reni’s Cupid with a Bow (P150)…
Guercino (1591-1666) San Pietro liberato da un angelo (Saint Peter freed by an Angel) c.1622 Oil on canvas, 105 x 136 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A youthful looking angel with curly hair imperiously points out the path of freedom…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Birth of the Virgin c.1503 Woodcut, 29.5 x 20.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) The Annunciation c.1502–1503 Woodcut printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream, 29.8 × 21.1 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Nemesis c.1502 Engraving on white antique laid paper, 32.6 × 22.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Poèmes Barbares (Savage Poems) 1896 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Gauguin’s model for this painting was likely Pau’ura a Tai, a 14-year-old girl whom the artist described as his “native wife”…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) 1891 Oil on canvas, 113.7 x 87.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Before embarking on a series of pictures inspired by Polynesian religious beliefs, Gauguin devoted this, his first major Tahitian…