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
Southern Netherlands · 1483–1561
Dutch Republic · 1558–1617
1290–1348 · Early Renaissance
France · 1703–1770
French · 1819–1877 · French Realism
Habsburg Netherlands · 1498–1574
French · 1590–1649 · Baroque painting
Republic of Venice · 1431–1506
Republic of Venice · 1430–1499
Kingdom of Saxony · 1789–1869
Anglo-Dutch · 1593–1661
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
Villagers on Their Way to Church
Simon Bening · 1550
Arrival of St. Ursula at Cologne
Bernardo Daddi · 1330
Seashells
Roemer Visscher · 1614
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