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The young saint sits on the ground, embracing a lamb and holding the cane cross in his left hand. This work is directly related to the painting that belonged to the Duke of Westminster. Mayer (1926) c [+]
The Genoese painter Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as Baciccio, arrived in Rome in 1657, escaping the plague that had devastated his native city and his family. According to his biographer Lione Pasc [+]
According to Elena Parma (Mantua, 2001, p. 296), the figure studies on the recto were perhaps made in relation to the planning of a masque, or a similar theatrical production. According to her interpr [+]
The wall decoration for which this design was intended was presumably over an altar dedicated to the Eucharist. The Old Testament story of Elijah visited by an angel was a prolepsis for the Eucharist. [+]
The psychology of the group, with the Virgin bending her face down to kiss the Christ Child´s breast, and the cradling of his left foot in her left hand, are deftly conveyed by the minimum of means. T [+]
Poccetti was one of the leading Florentine painters of the early seventeenth century. Largely thanks to his youthful association with the group of painters around Santi di Tito, Poccetti soon began to [+]
In ancient mythology, Mars -the god of War- and Apollo -the god of the Sun, who is associated with omniscient powers of reasoning- come together as a result of Apollo´s discovery of the affair b [+]
Nude, Christ leans over to the right while holding his tunic. The whipping post and whips are visible in the background to the left. This is a preparatory work for the canvas at the Academy of San Fer [+]
Vemos a la Virgen en una longitud de tres cuartos, vuelta ligeramente hacia la izquierda y sosteniendo al Niño Jesús. Un velo le cubre parte de la cabeza, y los pliegues voluminosos de esta misma pren [+]
Dibujo en el que se representa a la santa en pie, de frente, con las manos juntas, sosteniendo una cruz y con los pies sobre el dragón. Sigue la tradición escurialense, imitación de Zuccaro y Cambiaso [+]
El dibujo corresponde al periodo de madurez del pintor, en el que acumulaba ya toda su larga experiencia y conocimientos como dibujante, como se desprende del inteligente uso de las aguadas, es decir, [+]
Several pieces of paper have been glued to the original support by the artist in order to correct the original lines of certain parts of the composition (the angel’s shoulder and Abraham’s head). Isaa [+]
Kneeling at the left, with his left arm around the lamb, young Saint John raises his eyes to the nude Christ Child standing at his side. The scene is presented in a heart-shaped cartouche. This is a p [+]
Este dibujo presenta a San Juan en la madurez (se le puede representar en la juventud o en la vejez). Esta sentado a la izquierda, posiblemente sobre las raíces de un árbol, sujetando una tablilla par [+]
En la parte superior, la Virgen, sentada de frente con las manos juntas, rodeada de resplandores y de ángeles niños. En la parte inferior, los Apóstoles en pie o arrodillados, se agrupan en torno al s [+]
Dibujo en el que se representa al santo atado a un tronco, con la cabeza alzada. De estilo muy próximo a Cajés, será suyo o de discípulo muy inmediato. (Texto extractado de Pérez Sánchez, A. E., Catál [+]
Although no precisely corresponding composition by Titian appears to exist, many of the elements of the design may be found in his early painting of the Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and [+]
Maganza´s work belongs to the mainstream of painting in the Veneto during the last years of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth. His drawings, especially, reveal the i [+]
