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In 2011, the painting was sold at auction by Sothebys New York on behalf of the Heinz Kisters Foundation, which promotes and preserves the works of art in Heinz Kisters' collection. [ 8 ] The painting achieved the highest auction price ever for one of Titian's works , at $16.9 million, when it was sold at Sotheby's to a European telephone ...
Christ Pantocrator is a tempera painting created by Ieremias Palladas. Ieremias was associated with Saint Catherine's sacred monastery in Egypt also known as Mount Sinai. He was a Sinaitic monk, painter, and teacher. His nephew Gerasimos Palladas became the Patriarch of Alexandria. There was a dependency of Saint Catherine's Monastery which was ...
The Battle of Alexandria is an oil on canvas history painting by the French-born British artist Philip James de Loutherbourg, from 1802. It is held at the Scottish National Gallery , in Edinburgh . History and description
The Crowning of Saint Catherine is an oil-on-canvas painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Toledo Museum of Art. It portrays Catherine of Alexandria , an early-4th-century martyr, being crowned by the infant Jesus, sitting on his mother's lap.
Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary, also known as Lo Spasimo or Il Spasimo di Sicilia, is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael, of c. 1514–16, [1] now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. It is an important work for the development of his style.
Subjects showing the life of Jesus during his active life as a teacher, before the days of the Passion, were relatively few in medieval art, for a number of reasons. [1] From the Renaissance, and in Protestant art, the number of subjects increased considerably, but cycles in painting became rarer, though they remained common in prints and ...
The first versions of the paintings were obviously acquired by Giacomo Sannesio, secretary of the Sacra Consulta and an avid collector of art. The first Conversion of Saint Paul ended up in the Odescalchi Balbi Collection. It is a much brighter and more Mannerist canvas, with an angel-sustained Jesus reaching down towards a blinded Paul.
In March of 1820, Haydon began advertising the commercial premiere of the work to be hosted at Egyptian Hall, after failing to find a commission for the work.This exhibition was Haydon's first major endeavor as a commercial artist, and he borrowed the approach of street painters in nearby Leicester Square by selling programs with a key to understand the important portions of the work.