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 […]
Italian Art
Dose of Art #185: Pietro Paolini – Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes (c. 1625 – 1630)
Achilles was the big hero of the Trojan War, but he died at the end of it. His mother, Thetis, […]
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 #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 #165: Ercole de’ Roberti – St John the Baptist (c. 1478-1480)
We saw De’ Roberti’s Saint Jerome a couple of days ago. This is another sain; John the Baptist. At the […]
Dose of Art #161: Ercole de’ Roberti – Saint Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1474)
Saint Jerome is, along with Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Augustine, and Saint Ambrose, one of the four doctors of […]
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 #155: Umberto Boccioni – Dinamismo di un ciclista / Dynamism of a Cyclist (1913)
“We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, […]