Byzantine icons of the Mother of God were prized in medieval and early Renaissance Italy, where they were made a focus of Marian devotions.
A major centre of religious sculpture in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was Nottingham, England, home to large alabaster quarries.
Mengs was an early exponent of neoclassicism who was drawn to Italy by the renewed interest in Rome’s classical pas
Wright and his wife Ann had six children, two of whom died in infancy.
Jusepe de Ribera is a Spanish-born artist who spent his entire artistic career in Italy, where he became the leading painter in Naples in the first half of the seventeenth…
This sixteenth-century spouted vessel involves an elaborate and risqué visual joke. The form of the spout is of a dragon or serpent
In the 1630s, Thomas de Keyser was the most fashionable portrait painter in Amsterdam, and his work was popular with the middle and upper classes of that city.
After several months spent in Italy in 1961, Brett Whiteley moved to London where he lived in an apartment close to where notorious murderer John Christie had strangled several women…
This striking portrait presents the renowned Italian castrato Carlo Broschi (1705–82), called Farinelli, when he was singing at the court in Madrid during the early 1750
Although spending much of his career in Italy, Jeffrey Smart was one of Australia’s most distinguished artist
Blue: Alchemy of a Colour explores Asian and European works of art from the seventh century to the present inspired by the colour blue.
Blue: Alchemy of a Colour will explore the meaning and history of the colour blue through highly detailed textiles, ceramics, and exquisite works on paper from the 7th century to…
This dramatic image of animals engaged in mortal combat was a favourite subject for George Stubbs, one of England’s foremost animal painters at the close of the eighteenth centur
After studying painting and drawing in Melbourne, in 1979 Peter Schipperheyn furthered his studies at the Academie di belle Arti Carrarra in Italy.
Ubaldo Giugni (dealer), Florence, by 1951 unknown private collection, Italy, after 1951 with Matthiesen Gallery (dealer), London, by 1986 exhibited Baroque III 1620–1700, Matthiesen Gallery, London, 1986, n