Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Cristo morto sostenuto da un angelo (Dead Christ Supported by an Angel) 1475–1476 Mixed method on panel, 74 x 51 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Antonello da Messina was trained in Naples, the Italian city where the…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Perseo con la testa della Medusa (Perseus with the Head of Medusa) 1804–1806 Marble, 242.6 x 191.8 x 102.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When Countess Valeria Tarnowska first met the sculptor Antonio Canova, on December…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Vittoria Alata (Winged Victory) c.1803–1806 Bronze, 76.6 x 20 x 18.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Dedalo e Icaro (Daedalus and Icarus) 1777–1779 Marble, 182 x 95 cm Museo Correr, Venezia This famous sculpture, his first large one in marble, is the masterpiece of Antonio Canova‘s Venetian youth. It was created for the procurator…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Napoleone come Marte pacificatore (Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker) 1803–1806 Marble, h. 345 cm Wellington Museum, Apsley House, London Commissioned by Napoleon in 1802 this colossal statue of the Emperor was sculpted by Canova in Rome. Completed…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Amore e Psiche (Cupid and Psyche) 1796 Marble, 148 x 172 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The theories of Neoclassicism, formulated in the works of the German scholar and philosopher Johann Joachim Winckelmann, were vividly embodied in the…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Amore e Psiche che si abbracciano (Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss) 1787–1793 Marble, 155 x 168 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Apuleius (c.124-c.170): Psyche et Cupido (Latin)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna del Pesce (Madonna of the Fish) 1513–1514 Oil on panel, 215 x 158 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Seated on a throne, the Virgin holds the Christ Child in her lap. On the right, Saint Jerome dressed as…
Raffaello (1483-1520) & Evangelista da Pian di Meleto Eterno Padre e la Vergine (God the Father and the Virgin) c.1501 Tempera on panel, 110 x 73 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli This painting is a fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece, seriously damaged during an…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Sistina (Sistine Madonna) 1512–1513 Oil on canvas, 265.5 x 201 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden Raphael originally created the Sistine Madonna on behalf of Pope Julius II for the high altar of the monastery church of San Sisto…