Alfonso d´Avalos, first Marchese del Vasto, was born in Ischia on 25 May 1502 to a noble Neapolitan family of Castilian origins. He fought in Pavia (1525) under the orders of his uncle Fernando d´Aval [+]
The Virgin is crowned in the heavens by God the Father, Christ and the Holy Spirit, depicted in the form of a dove with its wings outstretched. Around them are grouped thirty-three saints of a type ch [+]
Isabel Clara Eugenia (1566-1633), Governor of the Southern Low Countries, is depicted walking in the park of the Palace of Coudenberg in Brussels, accompanied by a small retinue. The building is seen [+]
By far one the most popular themes in Marinus’ surviving work, Saint Jerome in his study has come down to us in several compositions. The preoccupation with this particular subject was a reaction to t [+]
Death has taken hold of an older woman who is in turn trying to pull along a voluptuous young woman who seems to be resisting. Death holds an hourglass and a broken lance, on the lower tip of which a [+]
The convincingly modelled figures seem like the fantastical inhabitants of a ghostly forest illuminated by the light of the full moon. One reads a book next to a laurel tree while her companions look [+]
The painting played a major role in the rediscovery of Marinus’ work, in particular its relation to the production of Albrecht Dürer. It carries the date of 1521, the year that Dürer visited [+]
This is a study for one of the demons in the group at the lower right of the Last Judgement, which he painted between 1536 and 1541 on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. In the fresc [+]
The drawing is surely by a sixteenth-century Florentine artist, as is shown by its similarity in handling and technique to The age of gold by Jacopo Zucchi (1541-1589/90) in the Paul Getty Museum, Los [+]
Traditionally attributed to Federico Zuccaro (1540/1-1609). In a pencil note on the modern museum matte, J. A. Gere dismissed this possibility. In Turner´s opinion, there is something in the han [+]
The protagonist of this relief is Francesco de’Medici (1541-1587). His is the figure at the right, whom the gods´ messenger, Mercury, leads by the hand, towards a female figure that has been identifie [+]
In this life-size bust the Emperor Charles V is shown wearing the emblem of the Golden Fleece. His suit of armour, of the “fleur-de-lys volutes” type, was made around 1521 by the Augsburg armourer Kol [+]
En el anverso busto de Andrea Doria (1468-1560), a la derecha. Cabeza descubierta y barbada. Lleva armadura labrada, cadena y manto sujetado por un broche. Detrás de él, un tridente; y en el corte del [+]
This tabletop was sent from Rome by Cardinal Alessandrino, nephew of Pope Pius V, to Philip II of Spain in 1587. Of unusual proportions, it is designed to create the impression that the inlay is made [+]