Dose of Art #197: Jan Gosseart – Danaë (1527)
Even in our present day (where we are used to much more) most of us will still see the erotic […]
16th century
Dose of Art #191: Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen? – Laughing Fool (c. 1500)
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere. —William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (3.1.39-40) It is […]
Dose of Art #184: Jacopo de’ Barbari – Still-Life with Partridge and Gauntlet (1504)
Used to images as we are, it is easy not to forget the effect a good trompe l’oeil would have […]
Dose of Art #176: Simon de Myle – Noah’s Ark On The Mount Ararat (1570)
This is the only known painting of Simon de Myle, of who we know nothing. It is signed with Simone […]
Dose of Art #174: Titian – Allegory of Prudence (c. 1565–1570)
EX PRAETERITO/PRAESENS PRUDENTER AGIT/NE FUTURA ACTIONẼ DETURPET reads the (barely visible) inscription: “From the experience of the past, the present […]
Dose of Art #171: Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Winter (1566)
Compared to the other seasons Arcimboldo painted, ‘King’ Winter posed a challenge as it lacked the flowers of Spring, the […]
Dose of Art #157: Titian – Tityus (c. 1548-1549)
When Odyssey visited the underworld he not only saw Sisyphus but also Tityus: “I saw Tityos also, son of the […]
Dose of Art #156: Titian – Sisyphus (c. 1548-1549)
King Sisyphus had tried to trick the Gods on numerous occasions and even cheat death (he failed), and Zeus decided […]
Dose of Art #144: Paolo Veronese – Allegory of Virtue and Vice (c. 1565)
Like yesterday’s painting, this one is dated at around 1565. Veronese placed the story of Hercules -who had to […]
Dose of Art #143: Paolo Veronese – Allegory of Wisdom and Strength (c. 1565)
The description of this painting at a 2006 Frick exhibition read: “A richly dressed female figure — Wisdom — […]