Dose of Art #152: Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato – Virgin Mary (c. 1640-1650)
“Ultramarine blue is a colour noble, beautiful, and perfect beyond all other colours, and there is nothing that could be […]
Italian Art
Dose of Art #151: Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato – Self-portrait (c. 1650)
Few public commissions by Sassoferrato exist, but he left over 300 paintings. His work was very popular in the 19th […]
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 — […]
Dose of Art #116: Giorgione – Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1505-1510)
The birth of Jesus and the events that surrounded it is probably one of the most painted subjects in […]
Dose of Art #105: Giovanni Bellini – Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1490)
Bellini made a number of portraits of young men. Most of them are looking to the left, like this […]
Dose of Art #95: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice (c. 1750’s)
The Venetian Republic commissioned this painting to replace a lost painting by Tintoretto. It was one of the last public […]
Dose of Art #84: Caravaggio – Narcissus (c. 1587-1599)
Narcissus was the son of the river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope and known for his beauty. He had told […]
Dose of Art #74: Gaspare Traversi – Teasing a sleeping girl (c. 1760)
Traversi (c. 1722 – 1 November 1770) was a Rococo genre painter from Naples. This painting is exemplary of […]
Dose of Art #71: Andrea Mantegna – Samson and Delilah (c. 1500)
The story of Samson and Delilah is an ideal one to paint; it has action, drama, moral and they all […]