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"David contempló desde la terraza de su palacio a la bella Betsabé que se encontraba desnuda bañándose. Preguntó por ella y le respondieron que se trataba de la mujer de Urías, el jeteo, lo cual no de [+]
The view is from the riverbank opposite the city, where several groups of people are spread out, enlivening the composition. In the background one can see Saragossa´s main buildings and Felipe IV ente [+]
Herod and Herodias appear at the right of the composition. Sitting at a table painted in foreshortened perspective, they look on—the king with a stupefied expression—as Salome presents them with the p [+]
This work joins the two known compositions on this subject by the artist, one in the Galleria dell’Accademia in Venice (ca. 1530-1532) and the other in El Escorial (1565-1570). When he produced a pain [+]
Helen’s move from Sparta to Troy is described very differently in the two oldest narratives. In the Iliad, Homer describes Helen’s reticence to abandon Menelaeus, suggesting she was kidnapped by Paris [+]
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 [+]
A compendium of common motifs in Meléndez´s oeuvre is found in this painting, affording it a sense of proximity and trueness to life of great artistic and documentary value. Set out among [+]
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 [+]
In spite of the optimism about the drawing´s authorship expressed by one of its earlier owners, this is surely a copy after a sixteenth-century Venetian composition, which I have not yet identified. T [+]
Philip Pouncey was the first to propose the attribution to Balducci. The drawing was presumably made late in the artist´s career, after the painter had settled in Naples. [+]
A former owner of this impressive drawing believed it to be from the hand of the Bolognese painter Bartolomeo Bagnacavallo, who, according to Vasari, travelled to Rome together with Biagio Pupini (act [+]
This drawing depicts the story of the nymphs Florilla and Melissa, twin daughters of Heaven and the Earth, lovers of music (Florilla) and flowers (Melissa), the honeymaker. The young nymphs were respe [+]
Dibujo en el que se representa a Judith, ricamente vestida, que sostiene la cabeza de Holofernes con la mano izquierda. Al fondo aparece la sirvienta. Se relaciona con la técnica de la xilografía al c [+]
By far the most prestigious commission of Trometta´s entire career was the fresco decoration of the ceiling of the choir of the church of S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome. On 30 January 1565 he contracted t [+]
This drawing is after the one of the scenes painted by Polidoro between the windows of second floor of the Palazzo Milesi, Rome. [+]
The pose of the Evangelist, seated on a mound in a landscape, with one leg astride the back of the ox, his attribute, recalls the painted figure of St. Luke in one of four irregularly shaped compartme [+]
Farinati was one of the most prolific draftsmen active in Verona in the second half of the sixteenth century. His pictorial approach to drawing -many of his studies are carried out largely with the br [+]
The drawing was placed in Brun´s (?) collection as by the Ferrarese Benvenuti Tisi, called Garofalo (1481-1559). Both the composition and handling however reveal the influence of Ludovico Carracci, an [+]
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