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 [+]
Wearing a red habit, Saint Jerome sits at a table, pointing to his customary attribute, the skull that illustrates his meditations on the vanity of life. The bookstand holds a tome open to a page show [+]
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 [+]
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 [+]
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 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 [+]
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 [+]
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 [+]