Painting ID:: 62292
St John the Evangelist 1577 Black chalk with traces of white, on yellowish paper, 255 x 155 mm Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid The drawing is a study for St John the Evangelist, one of the six canvases that El Greco painted for the altarpiece on the High altar of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo The drawing, now considerably faded, served a practical purpose. The squaring of the sheet indicates that it was used to transfer the design on to the full-scale canvas. In many respects the painting follows the drawing very closely: the arrangements of the hands, feet and draperies are virtually identical new21/El Greco-596964.jpg
Painting ID:: 62330
St John the Evangelist 90 x 77 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid There is an analogous version in the Cathedral of Toledo which is part of a series of the twelve Apostles, called Apostolados. It is assumed by some scholars that this painting also belonged to a similar series. Author: GRECO, El Title: St John the Evangelist , 1551-1600 , Spanish Form: painting , religious new21/GRECO, El-586896.jpg
Painting ID:: 62369
Saint John the Evangelist's Vision of Jerusalem 1636-37 Oil on canvas, 83 x 44 cm Wallace Collection, London This painting, contracted on 23 November 1635, was executed for the convent church of Santa Paula in Seville. It is evident that the artist had mastered an Italianate manner of painting; the figure of the angel alone is sufficient to corroborate this observation. The partly clad body, the complicated, foreshortened pose, and the mastery of anatomical drawing are unique elements in Sevillian painting of the time, as are the deep perspective of the landscape and the delicate, translucent colours. Cano's mastery of this facile, sophisticated style suggests that he had passed time in Italy, although there is not the slightest evidence that he left the city until his final departure in 1638 new21/Cano, Alonso-265684.jpg
Painting ID:: 62371
Ulysses and Circe - Oil on panel 51 x 81 cm Private collection The present painting depicts an episode from the Odyssey (Bk 10). On their journey home after the Trojan War, Ulysses and his companions came upon the island of the sorceress, Circe. With a magic potion, she transformed the men into swine; however Ulysses, having been forewarned by Mercury and having taken an antidote, was able to resist her magic. The present painting depicts the moment when Circe lifts her wand to touch Ulysses and activate the spell new21/BIJLERT, Jan van-743882.jpg
Painting ID:: 62372
Vanitas 52 x 44 cm Mus?e des Beaux-Arts, Marseille The artist specialized in complex 'Vanitas' pieces of dramatic clarity. The general influence on his art is Netherlandish, and it is likely that his unsigned pictures are still classified under the Northern schools. Most of his pictures are dominated by a grisly skull surrounded by numerous other indications of the brevity of life. He was received into the French Academy in 1663 as a portraitist new21/Renard Emile-668227.jpg
Painting ID:: 62416
Sir Thomas Gresham 1565-70 Oil on panel, 90 x 75,5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam From 1552 to 1567, the English merchant Thomas Gresham (1519-1579) lived and worked in Antwerp as financial agent of the English crown (`King's merchant'). This prominent social position explains why he had his portrait painted by Mor, who was court artist to Philip II. This Utrecht-born painter was noted for the accurate recording of detail in his portraits. He depicted Gresham as a strong, somewhat reserved personality. Mor also painted a portrait of Gresham's wife, which is likewise in the Rijksmuseum. Author: MOR VAN DASHORST, Anthonis Title: Sir Thomas Gresham , 1551-1600 , Flemish Form: painting , portrait new21/MOR VAN DASHORST, Anthonis-962993.jpg
Painting ID:: 62435
Virgin with the Blessing Child 1450-55 Metalpoint on white paper mounted on pink-coloured sheet, 216 x 133 mm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam The Virgin is seated between two columns which stand on a low wall, probably intended as walled loggia or hall with behind it in the middle an opening flanked by columns, as Van der Weyden painted in his St Luke painting the Virgin. The situation is strongly reminiscent of the configuration of nearly all of Memling's enthroned Virgins, so that one wonders whether this drawing might not reflect the ultimate prototype of Memling's formula. This conclusion is further enhanced by the position of the Child who, seated on one of his mother's hands and gently restrained with the other, is turning sideways in an attitude of blessing. This is also Memling's basic motif. The high finish of the modelling and draperies and the summary treatment of the architectural setting seem to suggest a copy drawn by the master himself of the main figure of one of his own paintings. The drawing would thus have been intended as a studio model which later ended up in Bruges workshops. It is impossible, however, to `reconstruct' Van der Weyden's lost painting from the derived versions, which are far too divergent; in some the Mother and Child are worshipped by one or two founders, in others they are surrounded by holy women or flanked by angels. The inscription 'Alberto Durer' at top left is a later addition from the 19th century new21/WEYDEN, Goossen van der-425657.jpg
Painting ID:: 62814
Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals 1839 Oil on canvas Royal Collection, Windsor Van Amburgh reclines in the cage surrounded by a tiger, a lion, a lioness and two leopards. He wears a coat of mail, presumably not as a form of protection but perhaps, judging by the footwear, as a form of costume (part Roman and part medieval). There are scratches on the skin of his right forearm and on his neck. The sheen on the coats of the animals reveals Landseer's superb technique, as in the balance between the underpaint and the highlight on the lioness, or the spots visible beneath the top layer of paint on the two leopards. Artist: LANDSEER, Sir Edwin Henry Title: Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals (detail) , painting Date: 1801-1850 English : genre new21/Sir Edwin Landseer-249937.jpg
Painting ID:: 62859
Apollo Vanquishing the Python 1850-51 Mural painting, about 800 x 750 cm Musee du Louvre, Paris This is the central panel of the vaulted ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre. One of Delacroix's lesser-known masterpieces, the subject-matter was dictated by its destination. Apollo Vanquishing the Python shows the painter working in a direct line from the great decorators of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, without losing any of his own ardor or lyricism. Artist: DELACROIX, Eugene Title: Apollo Vanquishing the Python , painting Date: 1801-1850 French : mythological new21/Eugene Delacroix-989245.jpg
Painting ID:: 62975
Scenes from the Life of St John the Evangelist St John on Patmos (detail) 1320 Fresco, width of detail 89 cm Peruzzi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence Artist: GIOTTO di Bondone Painting Title: Scenes from the Life of St John the Evangelist: 1. St John on Patmos (detail) , 1301-1350 Painting Style: Italian , , religious new21/GIOTTO di Bondone-487868.jpg
Painting ID:: 63065
Adoration of the Magi 1526-28 Oak, 251 x 185 cm Gem?ldegalerie, Dresden The painting, coming probably from a church in Genoa, was attributed to D?rer in the 16th century. Artist: CLEVE, Joos van Painting Title: Adoration of the Magi , 1501-1550 Painting Style: Flemish , , religious new21/CLEVE, Joos van-429892.jpg
Painting ID:: 63071
Self-portrait 1740s Oil on canvas, 65 x 50,2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Meytens's earliest self-portrait, a young painter's portrait with a turban, in the painters' gallery of Florences's Uffizi, was made during his Italian residence in 1727. This was followed in 1735 by a half-figure self-portrait, which can be found in two versions, in Sibiu's Muzeul Brukenthal, and in Ludwigsburg Gallery. The Budapest self-portrait belongs to a later period, and shows a slightly changed, somewhat more corpulent man. His face is still youthfully smooth, but already fattish, and he wears an Allonge-wig. His pose refers to his courtly position and special honours. A gold chain on his breast holds the medal he got in 1730 from Frederic, King of Sweden during his activity in Stockholm, and he ostentatiously shows with his right hand the medallion portrait of Empress Maria Theresia. Another half-figure portrait, now kept in the Viennese Gem?ldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden K?nste, as well as a painting in a Stockholm private collection, show the master some years older and of even more authority. Compared to these portraits and to the one engraved by Johann Gottfried Haid in 1756, our painting can probably be ascribed to the 1740s. Artist: MEYTENS, Martin van Painting Title: Self-portrait , 1701-1750 Painting Style: Austrian , , portrait new21/MEYTENS, Martin van-749338.jpg
Painting ID:: 63072
Empress Maria Theresa Oil on canvas Town Hall, Ghent This portrait of the Empress is in the reception salon of the Ghent Town Hall. The dress of Flemish lace that she is wearing was a gift to her from the states of Flanders. The dress was made by Ghent orphans. Out of gratitude for this expensive present, Maria Theresa allowed her portrait to be painted by her court painter, Martin van Meytens, after which the completed work was handed over to the members of the states. Artist: MEYTENS, Martin van Painting Title: Empress Maria Theresa , 1701-1750 Painting Style: Austrian , , portrait new21/MEYTENS, Martin van-828237.jpg
Painting ID:: 63078
The New Town Hall in Amsterdam after 1652 Oil on canvas, 73 x 86 cm Musee du Louvre, Paris This is the second version of the same subject that he completed shortly after the first painting. (The first is in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.) Here the viewpoint is somewhat further to the right and the perspective is different; the foreshortening of the Town Hall's fa?ade is less pronounced, and the lantern's distortion - too strong in the first version - has been corrected. Artist: HEYDEN, Jan van der Painting Title: The New Town Hall in Amsterdam , 1651-1700 Painting Style: Dutch , , landscape new21/HEYDEN, Jan van der-899656.jpg
Painting ID:: 63085
Annunciation 1436 Oil on wood, 39 x 24 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid The panel depicting in grisaille the Angel of the Annunciation is one of the wings of a small portable diptych. The other wing representing the Virgin Annunciate is in the same museum. Artist: EYCK, Jan van Painting Title: Annunciation , 1401-1450 Painting Style: Flemish , , religious new21/EYCK, Jan van-646575.jpg
Painting ID:: 63086
Annunciation 1436 Oil on wood, 39 x 24 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid The panel depicting in grisaille the Virgin Annunciate is one of the wings of a small portable diptych. The other wing representing the Angel Annunciating is in the same museum. Artist: EYCK, Jan van Painting Title: Annunciation , 1401-1450 Painting Style: Flemish , , religious new21/EYCK, Jan van-577954.jpg
Painting ID:: 63099
Crucifixion with Mary and St John the Evangelist 1400-50 Tempera on wood The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Artist: ANTONIO DA FIRENZE Painting Title: Crucifixion with Mary and St John the Evangelist (detail) , 1401-1450 Painting Style: Italian , , religious new21/Antonio da Firenze-568759.jpg
Painting ID:: 63527
Portrait of a Young Man 1500 Oil on wood, 31 x 26 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence This work, along with the Portrait of a Young Man conserved in the Galleria Capitolina, is recorded in the Inventories of 1753 as a self portrait, and as such it continues to be regarded, even though this supposition lacks any scientific foundation. The portrait is highly distinctive, the face having a mellow, moulded quality accentuated by its halo of soft curls and the round clouds which fill the sky in the background.Artist:BELLINI, Giovanni Title: Portrait of a Young Man Painted in 1451-1500 , Italian - - painting : portrait new21/Giovanni Bellini-787697.jpg
Painting ID:: 63622
Lucas van Leyden 1521 Chalk and charcoal, 368 x 255 mm British Museum, London The legend (below left), "effigies Lucae Leidensis," is not by D?rer. The "L [Lucas] 1525" above it shows that the drawing was once given out to be a work of the Dutch artist. If that was incorrect, it still cannot be denied that in its calm physiognomy the drawing is close to the Dutch manner. The hair falling in strands is not stylised in D?rer's fashion. The whole piece is in the severe manner of the late period, with a strongly emphasized contrast between the fundamental horizontal and vertical directions. The background is dark and uniform.Artist:D?RER, Albrecht Title: "Lucas van Leyden" Painted in 1501-1550 , German - - graphics : portrait new21/Albrecht Durer-496852.jpg