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Dish with Decoration of Oxen and Cherry Blossoms relates to Giovanna Garzoni’s Dog with a Biscuit and a Chinese Cup as an example of the type of ceramic ware that Garzoni came into contact with and depicted in her artwork. As a court artist for the…

About two decades after Fontana’s “Holy Family with Saints Margaret and Francis”, Federico Barocci produced a “Nativity”. Both works dealt with the Holy Family as subjects which is the primary impetus for their comparison. On a deeper level, both…

Damned Soul, a marble bust created by Bernini in 1619, depicts a male face with a twisted, painful expression [1]. The eyebrows are deeply arched, the mouth is open revealing a full set of teeth, and the head faces the left as if looking away at…

The marble bust Blessed Soul, or Anima Beata, was created in 1619 along with Damned Soul when Bernini was only 20. The piece is thought to have been commissioned by Cardinal Pedro Foix de Montoya [1]. The bust depicts a woman looking up toward heaven…

See collection entries for Bernini's David, Michelangelo's David, and Rubens' David and Goliath for information on each image.

This painting was completed by the Italian Mannerist artist Luca Cambiaso (1527-1585), a leading artist in Genoa in the 16th century. The painting was done in his middle period, which was his best period when his style was more subdued and more…

Caravaggio' s depiction of Medusa. This work was painted on a sixteenth-century tournament and was commissioned by Cardinal del Monte. Caravaggio chose to depict Medusa in a terrifying manner with a horrified expression. Caravaggio depicts her at the…

Caravaggios painting, Boy with a Basket of Fruit, is dated to early in his career from roughly 1593 to 1595. The painting is done in oil on a 70 by 67 cm canvas, and is a part of the Galleria Borghese in Rome [1]. Caravaggio created the painting…

An altarpiece originally in the Capella della Pieta chapel in the right nave of the Chiesa Nuova.

"Artist and engraver Claudine Brunand was likely related to the artist and woodcutter Michel Brunand. She worked for a number of printers and publishers in her native Lyon as well as in Germany. We know her for this charming, inventive, and…