JACOB FERDINAND VOET (1639-1689) Agostino Chigi, Principe di Farnese (c.1670) Oil on canvas (size unknown, probably 76 x 62 cm) Museum of Fine Arts and Lace, Alençon, France To enlarge the pictures, right-click on them and choose "Open in a new tab" When you look at a portrait by Jacob Ferdinand Voet, chances are that …
Tag: Italian baroque painting
A medieval epic
PIER FRANCESCO MOLA (1612-1666) Erminia and Vanfrino tending the wounded Tancred (c.1653) Oil on canvas: 69 x 92 cm The Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco (To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab") Born in a small village near Lugano, Pier Francesco Mola moved to cosmopolitan Rome with …
The Vision of St Francis
FEDERICO BAROCCI (c. 1530-1612) The Stigmatisation of St Francis (1594-95) Oil on canvas (360 x 245 cm) Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino Throughout his late period, Barocci continued to be much occupied with ecclesiastical commissions. Unlike the whole of the 1580's, during which he did not paint a single altarpiece for his native city, some …
Portrait of a Gardener
CARLO MARATTA (1625-1713) Portrait of Andre Le Notre (1679-80) Oil on canvas (112 x 85 cm) Chateau de Versailles To enlarge the image, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab" Carlo Maratta was one of the great Italian masters of the Late Baroque who excelled particularly in the genre of portraiture. From …
The French Cardinal
GIOVANNI BATTISTA GAULLI, known as BACICCIO Portrait of Emmanuel Theodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, Cardinal de Bouillon (1670) Oil on canvas (121 x 97 cm) Chateau de Versailles To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and then "Open in a new tab" Dramatized by the crimson velvet drapery, this sumptuous composition showing a young prelate …
Portrait of a Knight of Malta
CARAVAGGIO (1571-1610) Portrait of a Knight of Malta (c. 1608) Oil on canvas (118 x 95 cm) Palazzo Pitti, Florence To enlarge the picture, right-click on it, then "Open in a new tab" The Portrait of a Knight of Malta is one of the works that the Italian scholar Mina Gregori has convincingly identified as …
Portrait of a Young Knight
LUDOVICO CARDI (known as IL CIGOLI) 1559-1613 Portrait of a Young Knight (1594) Oil on canvas (78 x 62 cm) Palazzo Pitti, Florence The Florentine artist Ludovico Cardi, better known as Il Cigoli was a pupil of the late Mannerist painter Alessandro Allori (1535-1607) and of the architect Bernardo Buontalenti (1536-1608). He was born in …
The Glory of the Virgin
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 …
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 …
Old Masters 