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This depiction of an honest courtesan, presents an iconography of increasing interest to art historians in recent decades. With her curly blond hair, bare forehead and pearl necklace, as well as the b [+]
The two canvases P382 y P384 are by the same artist and were probably intended as a pair. Their meaning can be gleaned from L’arte de Cenni (1616), the most important treatise on gestures of its day, [+]
Dressed in camel skins, Saint John the Baptist baptizes Christ in the River Jordan. According to the New Testament, the Holy Ghost descended at that very moment in the form of a dove —depicted in the [+]
There are two classical Floras: the mythological goddess, wife of Zephyrus and an example of marital harmony and fertility; and the legendary Roman prostitute of that name. The two became associated i [+]
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As Anna Forlani has observed in a note on the museum mount (1980), this drawing is a typical work of the son of Jacopo Tintoretto (1519-1594), Domenico, who was taught by his father and assited him in [+]
The traditional attribution to Domenico may well be correct, though some aspects of the style suggest the work of Alessandro Maganza (1556-after 1630). [+]