Niccolò dell’Abate‘s The Rape of Proserpine, generally dated around 1570, transforms one of the most violent episodes of classical mythology...
Pieter Aertsen’s Cook in front of the Stove, dated 1559, gives a kitchen worker the scale and pictorial authority that...
A colored wax relief portrait of Emperor Maximilian II Habsburg, crafted around 1575 by the Italian medallist Antonio Abondio, is...
The Continence of Scipio, painted around 1555 by Niccolò dell’Abate, belongs to the years immediately following the Modenese painter’s move...
Masséot Abaquesne’s Ceramic Floor of 1557 belongs to the ambitious decorative projects that brought Renaissance imagery into French ceramic art...
Executed with meticulous linear precision and luminous tonal modulations, the stained-glass roundel depicting the biblical narrative of Susanna and the...
Giuseppe Abbati’s The Cloister of Santa Croce (1861–1862) reduces a building site in one of Florence’s most famous religious complexes...
Nicolai Abildgaard’s Simo and his Former Slave Sosia, painted in 1803, transforms an episode from Terence’s ancient Roman comedy Andria...
Luigi Ademollo’s The Menorah, painted in 1816 for the Room of the Ark in the Galleria Palatina at Palazzo Pitti,...
In 1875, the German painter Oswald Achenbach captured a nocturnal celebration in the Bay of Naples, where hundreds of spectators...
Juan de la Abadía‘s Saint Michael Weighing Souls, painted in Aragon during the closing decades of the fifteenth century, places...
Niccolò dell’Abbate’s Portrait of a Gentleman with a Falcon, painted around 1548–50, presents an unidentified northern Italian aristocrat with the...