Painted in 1559, Pieter Aertsen’s The Cook gives an anonymous kitchen worker an unusually imposing pictorial presence. Nearly life-size within...
Luigi Ademollo’s The Menorah, painted in 1816 for the Room of the Ark in the Galleria Palatina at Palazzo Pitti,...
Willem van Aelst’s Still-Life with Fruit and a Crystal Vase, painted around 1650 and now in the Galleria Palatina in...
The emergence of the hunting still life, or jachtstuk, in the middle of the seventeenth century marked a decisive shift...
Willem van Aelst executed his Breakfast Piece in 1671, demonstrating the refined technical mastery that secured his reputation among the...
A compact table carries almost the entire visual weight of Alexander Adriaenssen’s Still-Life with Oysters, painted in the 1630s and...
Beneath a canopy of overhanging branches, a nude man stands with one hand raised pensively toward his mouth while, at...
Alexander Adriaenssen’s Still-Life with Fish, painted between 1630 and 1650, concentrates an extraordinary amount of visual incident within a relatively...
A young man in black turns his face away from the frontal axis, his attention directed beyond the limits of...
Giuseppe Abbati painted Oration (The prayer) in 1866, at a moment when his association with the Macchiaioli had already transformed...
Albrecht Adam’s The Return from the Hunt, painted in 1828 in oil on canvas, measures 69 × 101 cm and...
Λεπτομέρεια από τα συμπαγή, σκούρα κυπαρίσσια στον πίνακα "Οδός με Κυπαρίσσια" του Abbati.