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Allegory of Peace, Art and Abundance; Amor Vincit Omnia (Caravaggio) Annunciation (El Greco, Illescas) Annunciation (El Greco, Prado, 1600) The Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Hyacinth; Assumption of the Virgin (Annibale Carracci, Rome)
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M. Madonna and Child enthroned with St. John the Baptist and St. Augustine (Permeniates) Madonna and Child with Saints (Signorelli, Arezzo) Madonna of Constantinople
Rubens’s Venus and Adonis was most likely painted as decoration for a large country house. The first records of the painting’s history were from the collection of the Elector of Bavaria, where it was held until 1706.It was then taken by Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor who then presented it to John Churchill at Blenheim Palace until it was sold by the 8th Duke of Marlborough [3] In 1937, it ...
October 17 - Cornelis de Jode, cartographer and engraver (born 1568); date unknown. Cristoforo Augusta, Italian painter, pupil of Giovanni Battista Trotti (born 1550); Giovanni Balducci, also called Il Cosci, Italian mannerist painter (born 1560)
The early realist, tonal and classical phases of landscape painting had counterparts in still life painting. [70] Willem Claeszoon Heda (1595– c. 1680 ) and Willem Kalf (1619–1693) led the change to the pronkstilleven , while Pieter Claesz (d. 1660) preferred to paint simpler "ontbijt" ("breakfast pieces"), or explicit vanitas pieces.
The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt is an oil painting on canvas by Peter Paul Rubens. It was commissioned in 1615 to decorate Schleißheim Palace, along with three other works depicting lion, wolf, and boar hunts. The cycle of paintings was looted from the palace during the Napoleonic Wars.
Still life (130x80cm, 1624). The largest painting he ever made, with 44 different species of animals and 63 species of flowers. [6]Savery primarily painted landscapes in the Flemish tradition of Gillis van Coninxloo, often embellished with many meticulously painted animals and plants, regularly with a mythological or biblical theme as background.