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 [+]
This is a good facsimile copy of a drawing formerly in the collection of Prof. Van Regteren Altena, Amsterdam. Another copy of the Amsterdam drawing is in the British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle. [+]
Gabriele Finaldi was the first to point out that the seated pope seems to be Pius V (Ghislieri), the Dominican, pro-Spanish pontiff who reigned from 1566 to 1572. As Cardinal Ghislieri, he held the of [+]
This is the companion to the drawing D01646. The execution of the hands and hair is especially characteristic of Ludovico Carracci´s style. [+]
When the Virgin Mary was three years old her parents, Anna and Joachim, led her to the Temple of Jerusalem. There the young Virgin, without the assistance of her parents, climbed the staircase leading [+]
Perhaps by a Spanish follower of Federico Zuccari who was accomplished at representing hunting scenes. [+]
Traditionally, this work was considered a preparatory sketch for the frescoes on the dome of the collegiate church at La Granja. In 1768 Charles III initiated the decoration of that church, and its do [+]
The composition, which I have been unable so far to identify, may have been taken from a print. The inventor of the design was evidently either Venetian or Veronese. [+]
The authorship of these two small but lively compositional studies -D1817 and D1818- has given rise to some disagreement. The most recent suggestion that they are the work of the Brescian Lattanzio Ga [+]
San Francisco se representa arrodillado con los brazos abiertos, eleva los ojos a un ángel niño que le muestra una esfera. En primer término una roca, y en ella una cruz de leño y libros. Fondo de pai [+]
Annibale Carracci established the early Baroque style in Italy with Caravaggio (1571-1610). Annibale`s naturalistic style was based on the Antique and on Raphael, and unlike Caravaggio`s sombre realis [+]
The drawing, which seems little more than a copy, carries an old attibution to Antonio Vassilacchi, l´Aliense (1556-1629). The composition indeed seems Venetian. [+]
Sentada sobre una nube, con las manos sobre el pecho y coronada de estrellas, aplasta con el pie derecho la serpiente que se enrosca junto al creciente de la luna. A su derecha un angel mancebo y otro [+]
The figure appears to derive from the circle of the Florentine Mannierist, Francesco Salviati (c. 1520-c. 1575), rather than from the School of Raphael. Especially redolent of Salviati´s invention is [+]
The motif of two putti, one male and one female, standing in pairs derives from the decorations on the fronts of the thrones on which the Prophets are seated in Michelangelo’s fresco decoration of the [+]
According to Vasari, Guidobaldo II, Duke of Urbino, commissioned Franco to prepare designs for maiolica following his failed attempt to decorate the vault of the choir of Urbino cathedral with a large [+]
En la parte inferior los apóstoles se agrupan alrededor del sepulcro vacío de la Virgen, uno arrodillado en primer término alza la cabeza y otro tras él extiende los brazos. En la parte superior la Vi [+]
In this indoor scene, Saint Joseph appears at the left of the composition, kneeling beside the infant Jesus’ cradle and leaning on a cross-shaped crook. The drawing has been cropped on both sides and [+]