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...
A nude male body, folded almost in two upon a leopard skin, dominates the canvas in The Wounded Philoctetes, completed...
A colored wax relief portrait of Emperor Maximilian II Habsburg, crafted around 1575 by the Italian medallist Antonio Abondio, is...
In 1875, the German painter Oswald Achenbach captured a nocturnal celebration in the Bay of Naples, where hundreds of spectators...
Beneath a canopy of overhanging branches, a nude man stands with one hand raised pensively toward his mouth while, at...
Niccolò dell’Abate’s The Death of Eurydice, painted about 1552–71, turns a mythological catastrophe into an expansive landscape whose scale almost...
Niccolò dell’Abate’s Stag Hunt, painted around 1550–52, turns an aristocratic pursuit into a broad landscape narrative in which human action...
Nicolai Abildgaard’s Simo and his Former Slave Sosia, painted in 1803, transforms an episode from Terence’s ancient Roman comedy Andria...
Niccolò dell’Abate‘s The Rape of Proserpine, generally dated around 1570, transforms one of the most violent episodes of classical mythology...
The Continence of Scipio, painted around 1555 by Niccolò dell’Abate, belongs to the years immediately following the Modenese painter’s move...
Juan de la Abadía‘s Saint Michael Weighing Souls, painted in Aragon during the closing decades of the fifteenth century, places...