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Filippo Neri
Italy/Spain
Saint Filippo Neri (1515–95) was a Florentine-born clergyman who worked as a lay preacher ministering to the poor and underprivileged long before he took holy orders in 155
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Zoffany as punster and prankster: some comments on his David with the head of Goliath
In about 1750 the young Johan Zoffany1He was born Johann Joseph Zauffalӱ at Frankfurt-am-Main in 1733, the son of the Bohemian-born Franz Zauffalӱ, who was originally a cabinet-maker, but later…
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The Madonna of the future O.G. Rejlander and Sassoferrato
For photography there are new secrets to conquer, new difficulties to overcome, new Madonnas to invent, new ideals to imagin
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Sassoferrato at the National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a Madonna in prayer of exceptional beauty and quality by the seventeenth-century painter Giovanni Battista Salvi, ‘Il Sassoferrato̵
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Buying for the Future, Mary Woodall and Italian old master paintings
One must buy for the future, even against public opinion, although it is satisfying when you do buy a picture that’s popular … It’s important to get really top class thing
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Jusepe de Ribera’s Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
The National Gallery of Victoria’s collection has been significantly augmented with the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, a well-known masterwork by Jusepe de Ribera, one of the most influential figures of…
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Francesco, Giacomo and Giulio Francia Virgin and Child with the young Saint John in a garden of roses
Francesco Francia was the leading Renaissance painter in the Northern Italian city of Bologna.