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Religion succoured by Spain (c.1572-75), belongs to the last group of paintings that Titian sent to Philip II in 1576, one year before the artist’s death. As such, it is almost seven decades older than the earliest work by Titian, The Virgin and Child between Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Roch (P288), c.1510. Contemplating the two together allows viewers to recognise and admire Titian’s excepti
Antonio Correggio’s stay in Rome between 1518 and 1519 powerfully affected his late work, which reflects that of late Raphael and the Michelangelo of the Sistine Chapel. Without ever abandoning Andrea Mantegna, and especially Leonardo, Correggio drew on those influences to shape his personal and decisive contribution to the classical style. After returning to his native Parma in 1520 he focused on
This work depicts the moment when the Holy Ghost, in the form of flames, rests on the Virgin and the Apostles on Pentecost day in Jerusalem, as is told in the book of Acts (2: 1-5). The bald, bearded Apostle who looks out at the viewer from the right of the canvas has been identified as a self-portrait, or as a portrait of the artist´s friend, Antonio de Covarrubias. Along with other paintings in
Jerónimo Vich y Valterra (1459-1535) was Spain’s ambassador to Rome between 1506 and 1521, under the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V. Vich commissioned Sebastiano del Piombo to paint a triptych whose central panel with the Lamentation over the Body of Christ is now at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. One of its sides bears Christ’s Descent into Limbo and is also at t
This Charity, one of the most important works by the Tuscan painter Portelli, derives from a work on the same subject by Francesco Salviati (1510-1563) now in the Uffizi, Florence, emulating its composition, brilliant colours and detailed finish. It was acquired by Charles IV.
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 (active between 1511 and 1551) when Raphael was active there, from 1508 to 1520. The precise nature of Bartolomeo´s association with Raphael remains elusive: he is often referred to as his pupil, as in th
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 office of grand inquisitor under the two previous pontiffs, Paul IV and Pius IV. Comparison of the visage and physique of the pope in the drawing with those in the many surviving portraits of Pius V sho
Florian Härb first suggested the very plausible attribution to Vasari. He pointed out that this is very likely an early work, done when the artist was in the habit of making drawn copies after paintings by others masters. The composition in which the figures appear has not been identified so far, but the elongated figuretypes and distinctive facil features suggest that the work of another Flo
This is a preparatory drawing for Vasari´s fresco of St. Luke Painting the Virgin in the Cappella di San Luca in S. Annunziata, Florence. In 1560 the chapel, formerly the Cappella Benizzi, was granted to the sculptor Fra Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli (c. 1507-1563), who had been inducted into the Servite Order at S. Annunziata some three decades earlier. He presented it to his fellow Florentine artis
Es una litografía de Augusto Guglielmi que reproduce un lienzo de un discípulo de Vasari (P98), atribuido hasta 1920 a Jacopo Chimenti y como tal aparece en la firma de la estampa. Esta estampa se entregaba con el cuadernillo CXXXIV acompañado de un texto explicativo de José Musso y Valiente. Iba encuadernada en el tomo III de la serie dirigida por José de Madrazo, Colección litográfica de cuadros
Es una litografía de Augusto Guglielmi que reproduce un lienzo de un discípulo de Vasari (P00098), atribuido hasta 1920 a Jacopo Chimenti y como tal aparece en la firma de la estampa. Esta estampa se entregaba con el cuadernillo CXXXIV acompañado de un texto explicativo de José Musso y Valiente. Está encuadernada en el tomo III de la serie dirigida por José de Madrazo, Colección litográfica de cua
In spring 1566, Giorgio Vasari saw a mythological painting in Titian’s Venetian workshop with a "giovane ignuda, che s’inchina a Minerva, con un’altra figura accanto, ed un mare, dove nel lontano è Nettuno in mezo sopra il suo carro." It was commissioned by Alfonso I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, who died before it was completed. Over thirty years later, Titian returned to it, transforming the i
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