A colored wax relief portrait of Emperor Maximilian II Habsburg, crafted around 1575 by the Italian medallist Antonio Abondio, is...
Western & European Art
Niccolò dell’Abate’s Meeting of Charles V and the Bey of Tunis, painted around 1545–50, transforms an episode of sixteenth-century Mediterranean...
In 1875, the German painter Oswald Achenbach captured a nocturnal celebration in the Bay of Naples, where hundreds of spectators...
Niccolò dell’Abate’s The Death of Eurydice, painted about 1552–71, turns a mythological catastrophe into an expansive landscape whose scale almost...
Λεπτομέρεια από τα συμπαγή, σκούρα κυπαρίσσια στον πίνακα "Οδός με Κυπαρίσσια" του Abbati.
A nude male body, folded almost in two upon a leopard skin, dominates the canvas in The Wounded Philoctetes, completed...
Niccolò dell’Abate’s Stag Hunt, painted around 1550–52, turns an aristocratic pursuit into a broad landscape narrative in which human action...
Against a wall of ochre plaster, roughly textured and unevenly lit, a woman stands in strict profile, one hand resting...
The Compositional Dynamics of Abildgaard Culmin’s Ghost The intersection of Nordic mythological revival and rigorous anatomical study finds profound expression...
Beneath a canopy of overhanging branches, a nude man stands with one hand raised pensively toward his mouth while, at...