Painted in 1559, Pieter Aertsen’s The Cook gives an anonymous kitchen worker an unusually imposing pictorial presence. Nearly life-size within...
Pieter Aertsen’s Cook in front of the Stove, dated 1559, gives a kitchen worker the scale and pictorial authority that...
Pieter Aertsen’s Christ in the House of Martha and Mary makes the biblical narrative compete for attention with the physical...
Pieter Aertsen’s Market Scene with Christ and the Adulteress, when the eye first encounters it, unsettles the expected order of...
Executed with meticulous linear precision and luminous tonal modulations, the stained-glass roundel depicting the biblical narrative of Susanna and the...
Overwhelming the visual field before any narrative context can be established, a chaotic accumulation of harvest produce demands immediate attention....
Executed in the final year of his life, Pieter Aertsen Apostles Peter and John (1575) stands as a complex late...
Giuseppe Abbati painted Oration (The prayer) in 1866, at a moment when his association with the Macchiaioli had already transformed...
Adriaen van Utrecht’s Fishmonger’s Stall, painted around 1640, turns an ordinary commercial setting into an immense display of marine abundance....
Across a field crowded with tents, soldiers, horses and distant ships, the painting traditionally known as Meeting of Charles V...
Luigi Ademollo’s Transportation of the Ark of the Covenant Containing the Tablets of the Law, painted in 1816 for the...
Luigi Ademollo’s The Menorah, painted in 1816 for the Room of the Ark in the Galleria Palatina at Palazzo Pitti,...