Allegory of Fortune
Salvator Rosa · 1658
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Allegory of Fortune
Salvator Rosa · 1658
Allegory of Fortune, sometimes also named La Fortuna, is an oil painting on canvas featuring the Roman goddess of fortune, Fortuna, that was created c. 1658 or 1659 by the Italian baroque painter Salvator Rosa.
Getty Tondal
Simon Marmion
The Getty Tondal, also known as Les visions du chevalier Tondal is an illuminated manuscript from 1475, now in the Getty Museum. It is a French version and is the only surviving fully illuminated manuscript of the Visio Tnugdali.
Prayer Book of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg
Simon Bening
Simon Bening. The Prayerbook of Albert of Brandenburg is a c.1525-1530 illuminated manuscript produced in Flanders by Simon Bening for cardinal Albert of Brandenburg. It contains 42 full page miniatures and 35 pages decorated with marginal scenes. It is now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, with the catalogue number MS. Ludwig IX 19.
Northumberland Bestiary
1250
The Northumberland Bestiary (MS 100) is an illuminated manuscript and bestiary dating from 1250-1260. It was originally known as the Alnwick Bestiary (MS 447) as it resided in Alnwick Castle from the eighteenth century until 1990 when it was sold to a private collection.
Hours of Louis XII
Jean Bourdichon
The Hours of Louis XII was an illuminated manuscript book of hours produced by Jean Bourdichon for Louis XII of France. It was begun in 1498 or 1499, going by the king's age of 36 given below his portrait; he became king on 7 April 1498.
Llangattock Hours
1450
Artists
Republic of Venice · 1727–1804
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo was an Italian painter and printmaker in etching. He was the son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo.
Southern Netherlands · 1483–1561
Simon Bening was a Flemish miniaturist, generally regarded as the last major artist of the Netherlandish tradition.
Dutch Republic · 1558–1617
Hendrick Goltzius was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter. He has been described as the leading Dutch engraver of the early Baroque period, or Northern Mannerism, lauded for his sophisticated technique
1290–1348 · Early Renaissance
Bernardo Daddi was an early Italian Renaissance painter and the leading painter of Florence of his generation. He was one of the artists who contributed to the revolutionary art of the Renaissance, which broke away from
France · 1703–1770
François Boucher was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes.
French · 1819–1877 · French Realism
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the prev
Artworks
Portrait of Louis de Silvestre
Maurice Quentin de La Tour · 1753
Mythological Scene
Dosso Dossi · 1524
Belisarius
Jean-Baptiste Stouf · 1785
Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25
Vilhelm Hammershøi
Studies of women
Peter Paul Rubens · 1628
The Vexed Man
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · 1771
Arcadian Shepherds
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione · 1655
After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Back
Edgar Degas · 1896
Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus
Nicolas Poussin · 1626
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