Painting ID:: 62525
Portrait of Jeanbon Saint-Andr 1795 Pen, black ink, wash and white highlights, diameter 182 mm Art Institute, Chicago When in prison, David drew an oval portrait of a fellow detainee, the former Protestant minister, Jeanbon Saint-Andr? Politically Saint-Andr?had much in common with David. David's portrait shows him as upright and determined, with no hint of a man subdued by imprisonment. David, however, revealed his personal sense of injustice in an inscription in Latin at the bottom of the drawing: 'A gift of friendship. Solace of affection. David made in chains Year III of the French Republic (1795) Messidor 20.' Author: DAVID, Jacques-Louis Title: Portrait of Jeanbon Saint-Andr? Form: graphics , 1801-1850 , French , portrait new21/David, Jacques-Louis-338726.jpg
Painting ID:: 62853
Woman before the Rising Sun 1818-20 Oil on canvas, 22 x 30 cm Museum Folkwang, Essen In 1818, at the age of 44, Friedrich married Caroline Brommer, a cheerful 25 years old Saxon woman. That Caroline was a positive influence on the artist, which is evidenced by the fact that, from this point on, women appear with greater frequency in his work. A new, friendly element seems to enter his pictures. A case in point is the painting to which some authors give the title Woman before the Rising Sun, and which others call Woman before the Setting Sun. The woman seen in rear view appears as a large silhouette against the intense reddish-yellow of the sky. It is difficult to interpret the fervent gesture of her outstretched arms and the stylised rays radiating from the mountains on the hazy horizon, heralding the presence of the invisible sun. Caroline was probably the model for the female figure in old-German dress. Since she is stepping towards the light like an early Christian in prayer, some have sought to interpret the painting in terms of a communion with nature. On the other hand, the atmosphere evoked in Friedrich's painting might be interpreted as that of dusk, the path which terminates so abruptly as an announcement of death, and the boulders scattered alongside the path as symbols of faith. In the final analysis, few of Friedrich's pictures are as emphatic and almost exaggeratedly symbolic in their effect - factors which render the painting not unproblematic for the viewer. Artist: FRIEDRICH, Caspar David Title: Woman before the Rising Sun (Woman before the Setting Sun) , painting Date: 1801-1850 German : landscape new21/Caspar David Friedrich-769578.jpg
Painting ID:: 62856
The Watzmann 1824-25 Oil on canvas, 135 x 170 cm Nationalgalerie, Berlin Throughout his life, Friedrich demonstrated himself to be closely attached to his home. His numerous trips and walking tours to central Germany, Silesia, Bohemia, Greifswald, Neubrandenburg and Regen never actually took him very far away. He never visited southern Germany, for example, and his painting of The Watzmann - a mountain near Berchtesgaden, portrayed here rising like a Gothic cathedral in its stone majesty - was inspired by a watercolour by his pupil August Heinrich. It also rivalled a painting by Adrian Ludwig Richter of the same title, which went on show in Dresden in 1824 and was intended to back up Richter's application for the professorship in landscape painting at the Academy, the post to which Friedrich also aspired. Despite its apparent fidelity to nature, the painting reveals a somewhat fantastical element in its mixture of different geological formations and its unnatural ratios of scale. Artist: FRIEDRICH, Caspar David Title: The Watzmann , painting Date: 1801-1850 German : landscape new21/Caspar David Friedrich-548392.jpg
Painting ID:: 62869
Portrait of Marie 1769 Oil on canvas, 66 x 54 cm Musee National des Beaux-Arts, Algiers As with many other young artists, David used his close relatives as models for his first portraits. As well as his uncle Buron, he also painted his aunt, Marie-Josephe, and her daughter, Marie-Franeoise, who had supported his wish to become a painter. Both paintings show a directness of approach and a sympathetic contact between artist and sitter that anticipate David's later successes in portraiture. Artist: DAVID, Jacques-Louis Title: Portrait of Marie-Franeoise Buron , painting Date: 1801-1850 French : portrait new21/Jacques-Louis David-862846.jpg
Painting ID:: 62870
Hector Oil on canvas, 123 x 172 cm Musee Fabre, Montpellier David discovered the dramatically lit and forceful canvases of Caravaggio and his followers, and his full-length male nude and semi-nude studies such as Hector of 1778 and Patroclus of 1780 show how he had begun to use light and shadow to give weight and density to his figures. Artist: DAVID, Jacques-Louis Title: Hector , painting Date: 1801-1850 French : other new21/Jacques-Louis David-455446.jpg
Painting ID:: 62871
Count Potocki 1781 Oil on canvas, 304 x 218 cm Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw David received a lucrative commission for a grand portrait of a Polish nobleman, Count Stanislas Potocki. Although begun in Rome, the painting was actually completed a little later in Paris. Potocki came from one of the most celebrated Polish families, and had recently become very wealthy thanks to his wife's dowry. He was also a scholar, and translated and commented on the work of Winckelmann. Obviously his portrait had to be impressive and suggestive of his status. Therefore David depicted him on horseback, subduing a skittish horse with consummate ease. David turned to the example of the great Baroque portraitist Anthony van Dyck to create a work that was similar in scale and impact. Artist: DAVID, Jacques-Louis Title: Count Potocki , painting Date: 1801-1850 French : portrait new21/Jacques-Louis David-762983.jpg
Painting ID:: 62872
Portrait of Jacques Desmaisons 1782 Oil on canvas, 92 x 72 cm Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo After the death of his father following a pistol duel in December 1757, aged thirty-five, David was placed successively in the care of two uncles, Franeois Buron (1731-1818) and Jacques-Francois Desmaisons (c. 1720-1789), who were both architects and building contractors. Artist: DAVID, Jacques-Louis Title: Portrait of Jacques-Franeois Desmaisons , painting Date: 1801-1850 French : portrait new21/Jacques-Louis David-729376.jpg
Painting ID:: 62874
The Oath of the Horatii 1784 Oil on canvas Musee du Louvre, Paris The Oath of the Horatii proved to be a triumph for David. The public was overwhelmed by his break with the Baroque stylistic tradition. For the first time, the unity of time and action had been brought into a deliberately severe composition. The story of the passionate readiness of these heroes for self-sacrifice was known, and it was also recognized that the weeping women in the composition are an expression of foreboding, symbols of the tragedy to come. Artist: DAVID, Jacques-Louis Title: The Oath of the Horatii (detail) , painting Date: 1801-1850 French : historical new21/Jacques-Louis David-363328.jpg
Painting ID:: 62896
David and Goliath 1509 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican A sheet of light descends from David's shoulder along the sleeve of his tunic (painted smalt-blue with lime-white reflections) to the head of Goliath, who is sprawled on the ground, stressing his centrality to the composition and highlighting the dramatic violence of the action. The composition was carefully planned in order to neutralize, as far as possible, the irregular shape of the field, dramatically forcing the predominant line of sight by means of the bold foreshortening of the two figures and the luminous convexity of the white tent, modeled with violet shadows. In the foreground, toward the lower vertex of the triangle, David's sling, lying on the ground, constitutes the starting point of the projection of the perspective along the central axis of the composition. Artist: MICHELANGELO Buonarroti Title: David and Goliath (detail) Date: 1501-1550 Italian , painting : religious new21/Michelangelo Buonarroti-574458.jpg
Painting ID:: 62897
David and Goliath 1509 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican David's head is boldly foreshortened and modeled with a dense network of soft brushstrokes. Artist: MICHELANGELO Buonarroti Title: David and Goliath (detail) Date: 1501-1550 Italian , painting : religious new21/Michelangelo Buonarroti-872568.jpg
Painting ID:: 63052
David with the Head of Goliath 1620 Oil on canvas, 153 x 125,1 cm Royal Collection, Windsor Feti was a peripatetic artist. Having been trained in Rome by the Florentine painter, Lodovico Cigoli, he worked at the court of Mantua from around 1613 and towards the end of his life spent some time in Venice. His principal patron was Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga at Mantua and it was with the purchase of the Gonzaga collection in 1625-27 that Charles I acquired a number of works by Feti. The artist was influenced by Venetian painters, as well as by Elsheimer and Rubens. His portraits and a series of small-scale pictures illustrating parables, probably commissioned by Ferdinando Gonzaga, are perhaps his best works. The artists technique is distinctive, with rapid brushstrokes of pure colour applied as highlights over broader areas of paint on canvases primed with dark tones. Similarly, the poses of his figures and the choice of viewpoints are often unusual. David with the Head of Goliath almost certainly formed part of the Gonzaga collection. A version of some quality is in Dresden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen) and others are recorded. A date around 1620 has been suggested, that is, before the artist moved to Venice in 1622. The pose is somewhat reminiscent of the Ignudi by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and it is possible that the painting was meant to be hung as an overdoor. The present work depicts the story of David and Goliath as recounted in the first Book of Samuel, 17:48-51. The shepherd boy, David, defeats Goliath, the champion of the Philistines, in single combat using a sling with a stone. Afterwards David cuts off Goliath's head using the giants own sword. The body of Goliath is visible on the left in the middle distance. Feti cleverly contrasts the large scale of the decapitated head and sword with David's smaller body. Artist: FETI, Domenico Painting Title: David with the Head of Goliath , 1601-1650 Painting Style: Italian , , religious new21/FETI, Domenico-737227.jpg
Painting ID:: 63531
Bathsheba Goes to King David 1552-54 Fresco Palazzo Sacchetti, Rome Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi), together with Bronzino and Vasari, belonged to the second generation of Mannerist painters in Florence. He was in the Sarto workshop about 1529 and later Vasari and he were together in Rome where the influence of Raphael and of sophisticated Raphael followers affected him deeply. He also gathered ideas from his travels through north Italy, in Mantua, Venice and probably Parma. His frescoes in the Palazzo Sacchetti in Rome are among his most Mannerist works.Artist:SALVIATI, Cecchino del Title: Bathsheba Goes to King David Painted in 1501-1550 , Italian - - painting : religious new21/SALVIATI, Cecchino del-422654.jpg
Painting ID:: 63775
David with the Head of Goliath 1635 Oil on canvas, 132,5 x 100 cm The Hermitage, St. PetersburgArtist:STROZZI, Bernardo Title: David with the Head of Goliath Painted in 1601-1650 , Italian - - painting : religious new21/STROZZI, Bernardo-525437.jpg
Painting ID:: 63828
Saul Attacking David 1646 Oil on canvas, 147 x 220 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome This painting was executed along with a pendant, now in Los Angeles, that depicts Samson showing his hair - secret of his superhuman strength - to Delilah. Guercino painted the pair of canvases in 1646 for the Cardinal Falconieri, who was at the time serving as Papal Legate to Bologna. The two paintings were separated at the end of the eighteenth century. Guercino's increasing tendency towards classicism began in the 1630's when the painter fell under the influence of the late work of Guido Reni. Like its pendant, the Saul Attacking David is a splendid example of his late style, a period in which Guercino brought his investigations into classicising style to their fullest conclusion. Despite the dramatic quality of the narrative, the composition of the painting is extremely balanced: everything centres on the monumentality of the two figures, contrasting protagonists of the scene. Almost frozen in their action, they are displayed entirely in the foreground, as if in a relief sculpture. The chromatic range, light and highly refined, is rather far from the richly impasted mode of the artist's youth, as is the way in which the shadows ably underline the plastic quality of the two personages.Artist:GUERCINO Title: Saul Attacking David Painted in 1601-1650 , Italian - - painting : religious new21/GUERCINO-676226.jpg
Painting ID:: 63954
The Temptation of St Anthony after 1640 Oil on oak, 52,5 x 81,5 cm Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne The temptations or trials of St Anthony, who was tormented by spectres, witches and devils while living as a hermit among the barren cliffs, had often been depicted in Netherlandish painting. The basic type of mountain cliffs and fantastic figures in human and animal forms shows a clear relationship to Bosch and Bruegel. As well as peasant scenes, landscapes and mythology, Teniers had an interest in depicting ghosts, witches and alchemists. , Artist: TENIERS, David the Younger , The Temptation of St Anthony , 1651-1700 , Flemish , painting , religious new21/TENIERS, David the Younger-238556.jpg
Painting ID:: 63955
Temptation of St Anthony 26,4 x 36,6 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp , Artist: TENIERS, David the Younger , Temptation of St Anthony , 1651-1700 , Flemish , painting , religious new21/TENIERS, David the Younger-244854.jpg