The Garden of Earthly Delights is Bosch’s most complex and enigmatic creation. For Falkenburg the overall theme of The Garden of Earthly Delights is the fate of humanity, as in The Haywain (P02052), a [+]
Patinir shows St Jerome sitting inside the wooden shack that leans against the rocks in the foreground. As with the Landscape with the Martyrdom of St Catherine in Vienna (Kunsthistorisches Museum), t [+]
This work was first recorded in 1641 as a work by Titian belonging to the Duke of Medina de las Torres in Naples. It was, however, attributed to Giorgione for centuries until Wilhelm Schmidt again att [+]
Titian´s first contribution to the Camerino d´Alabastro was prompted by the death in October 1517 of Fra Bartolommeo from whom Alfonso d´Este had commissioned a Worship of Venus one year previously an [+]
As this painting shows, the German portrait style survived in Antwerp well into the sixteenth century: the sitter is shown half-length against a brightly-coloured background. In his left hand he holds [+]
Philip II (r. 1556-98) was Titian´s most important patron, and together they forged one of the most fruitful artistic relationships of the European Renaissance. Philip surpassed all of the Venetian pa [+]
Outside of Rome and Florence, no painter was as decisive in the formulation of painting´s classical language as Corregio. His youth, before his stay in Rome in 1518 and 1519, cannot be understood with [+]
Like the Portrait of a Lady of the Van Beijeren van Schagen Family (P2976), this portrait is a representative example of Mierevelt`s work in this genre. The support is also constructed in the same way [+]
Charles II was born in 1661, the only son of Philip IV and his second wife (and niece), Mariana of Austria, to survive to adulthood. Charles succeeded his father in 1665 and died without an heir in 17 [+]
Active mainly in Mechelen, Sellaert became familiar with Italian art first-hand during a trip in 1525. The figure of Charity was inspired by Leonardo’s Leda and the Swan. The inscription in Latin "Per [+]
In addition to the originality of its subject, this painting by Patinir is also remarkable for its unusual composition within Patinir`s oeuvre. The artist has divided the space vertically into three z [+]
This work is a curious version of the Virgin of the Milk, a symbol of Mary’s compassion that serves, in this case, to comfort the souls in Purgatory. The subject, and especially its derivation here as [+]
The first verified Spanish documentation of Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist or Madonna of the Rose, c. 1517, dates from 1657. In 1642 Wenceslaus Hollar engraved this composition aft [+]
A portrait of Saint Barbara in profile on a black background. In her hands, she holds a tower, which was her symbol. A third-century Christian martyr, Saint Barbara was shut up in a tower and later de [+]
This is without a doubt one of the finest drawings done in Italy during the sixteenth century from the Prado´s collection. Peter Candid, the artist responsible, was not however Italian by birth but Ne [+]
This drawing was formerly placed under the name of the French painter Jacques Blanchard (1600-1638), to whom it is traditionally attributed. The style, however, points directly to the work of the late [+]
This attractive compositional study is typical of Balducci´s style of drawing from the 1580s, the period of the artist´s early maturity. The pictorial effect is enhanced by the hot, brick-red ground, [+]
The old attribution to Francesco Raibolini, called Francia (c. 1450-1517), is clearly fanciful. The drawing is surely later, possibly from the second half of the sixteenth century, and it is possible [+]