Dose of Art #200: Andrea Mantegna – Judith with the Head of Holofernes (c. 1490)
The biblical story of Judith revolves around her going alone to an enemy camp and single-handedly killing their general, Holofernes […]
Art in detail
Art in detail
The biblical story of Judith revolves around her going alone to an enemy camp and single-handedly killing their general, Holofernes […]
Painted on an oak panel, this small painting – 34 × 25.5 cm (13 × 10 in) – shows an […]
Flowers in a Jug was made around the same time as yesterdays St. John the Baptist. At first sight, there’s […]
We saw De’ Roberti’s Saint Jerome a couple of days ago. This is another sain; John the Baptist. At the […]
Saint Jerome is, along with Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Augustine, and Saint Ambrose, one of the four doctors of […]
The German painter Dürer has made three self-portraits, and this is the second one, made when he was 26. He […]
Back to Bosch. With all those animals, people and weird little details it is easy to overlook the strangeness of […]
The right panel –The Last Judgement– shows some very horrific scenes of people getting tortured. And again we see this […]
We have seen an example of real vs fantasy animals, of his attention to detail and now it is time […]
The more you look at The Garden of Earthly Delights, the more wondrous it gets. The colour, the forms and […]