SEBASTIANO RICCI (1659-1734) The Virgin in Glory with the Archangel Gabriel and Saints Eusebius, Roch and Sebastian (1724-25) Oil on canvas (113 x 63 cm) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles To enlarge the image, right-click on it and the "Open in a new tab" The text that follows was written by the …
Category: Italian Artists
Saint Veronica
MATTIA PRETI (IL CAVALIERE CALABRESE) 1613-1699 Saint Veronica with the Veil (c. 1655-60) Oil on canvas (100 x 75 cm) Los Angeles County Museum of Art To enlarge the image, right-click on it and then "Open in a new tab" The text that follows belongs to the entry written by Richard Rand for the catalogue …
Purity and Meekness
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Purity of Heart (1752) Meekness (1752) Oil on canvas (98 x 74 cm) Uppark, West Sussex, UK To enlarge the images, right-click on them and "Open in a new tab" The following paragraphs belong to Alastair Laing's excellent book (1) published by the National Trust and the National Gallery for the magnificent exhibition …
Venetian Vedute
FRANCESCO ZUCCARELLI (1702-1788) Capriccio with San Giorgio Maggiore Capriccio with the Prison from the Riva Schiavone Oil on canvas (86 x 128 cm) Private collection Zuccarelli is considered the most important landscape painter to have emerged from his adoptive city of Venice during the first half of the XVIIIth century. Born in Pitigliano, he spent …
A Greek Tale
GUIDO RENI (1575-1642) Atalanta and Hippomenes (1622-25) Museo del Prado, Madrid Oil on canvas (206 x 297 cm) To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Born in Bologna Guido Reni was apprenticed at the age of 10 to the Flemish master Denis Calvaert, after a few years he joined …
A Sad Gentleman
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Henry Hutchinson O'Hara (1763) Oil on canvas (74 x 61 cm) Private collection Born in Lucca, Tuscany, the son of a goldsmith, Pompeo Batoni came to Rome when he was 21 and remained there for the rest of his life. He became the leading Italian painter of his generation. He specialized in …
The Child Christ
ANTON MARIA MARAGLIANO (1664-1739) The Child Christ (c. 1700) Painted wood with glass eyes (Height: 73 cm) Paul J. Getty Museum, Los Angeles To enlarge the pictures, right-click on them and "open in a new tab" Born in Genoa, the son of a baker, Anton Maria Maragliano entered as an apprentice in his maternal uncle's …
James Caulfeild
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) James Caulfeild, 4th Viscount Charlemont, later 1st Earl Charlemont (1753-56) Oil on canvas (98 x 74 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Pompeo Batoni was the portraitist of choice for the young British and Irish men …
Count Niccolo Soderini
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Portrait of the Count Niccolo Soderini (1765) Oil on canvas (134 x 97 cm) Galleria Nazionale d' Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Roma To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Pompeo Batoni was born in Lucca, Tuscany, the son of a goldsmith. Trained by his father he …
Old Masters 