Raffaello (1483-1520) Sacra Famiglia (Holy Family, Madonna with Beardless Joseph) 1506–1507 Tempera, oil on canvas (handed over from panel), 72.5 x 56.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Raphael painted this Holy Family during his stay in Florence, possibly for the ruler…
Campin, Robert (c.1378-1444) Portrait of a Stout Man (Robert de Masmines?) c.1425 Oil on panel, 35.4 x 23.7 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Robert Campin was a renowned painter of his day whose workshop trained important artists such as Jacques Daret and…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) San Girolamo in estasi (Saint Jerome in ecstasy) 4th quarter of the 15th century Tempera on gold background on canvas, 69 x 49 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Attributed to Luca Signorelli. Christ on the cross and the…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) San Sebastiano (Saint Sebastian) 4th quarter of the 15th century Tempera on canvas, 255 x 140 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Composition surrounded by a trompe-l’oeil porphyry border. Probably arrived in Aigueperse (Auvergne) on the occasion of the marriage…
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) San Girolamo (Saint Jerome) c.1638–1640 Oil on canvas, 129 x 100.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Saint Jerome (about ad 347–420) translated biblical texts into Latin. Although he sometimes appears as a scholar in his study,…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) after Alphonse Charles Masson (1814-1898) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1865 Crayon, with touches of graphite, over charcoal, with stumping, on paper, 16.2 x 10.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)