Two painted versions of Isabella d’Este have come to define her association with Titian, although neither records a simple encounter between painter and sitter. One, generally called Isabella in Red, is known principally through a copy made by Peter Paul Rubens after a lost Titian and shows Isabella as a mature woman. The other, IsabellaContinue reading “Titian and Isabella d’Este: The Truth of a Portrait”
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“Lost in Like but Separate Dreams”: Tullio Lombardo’s Double Portrait and Bacchus and Ariadne
Tullio Lombardo, born around the middle of the fifteenth century and active until his death in Venice in 1532, belonged to one of the leading family workshops of sculptors and architects in Renaissance Venice. He trained and worked alongside his father, Pietro Lombardo, and his younger brother Antonio, contributing to major architectural and funerary commissionsContinue reading ““Lost in Like but Separate Dreams”: Tullio Lombardo’s Double Portrait and Bacchus and Ariadne”
Tradition and Transformation: Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas / The Spinners / The Fable of Arachne (c. 1655–60).
Diego Velázquez, Las Hilanderas (The Spinners, or The Fable of Arachne), c. 1657–58, oil on canvas, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. (Credit: Wikipedia). « Ce qui m’a le plus ravi en Espagne, ce qui, à lui seul, vaut le voyage, c’est l’œuvre de Vélasquez. C’est le peintre des peintres ; je n’ai, cependant, été nullementContinue reading “Tradition and Transformation: Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas / The Spinners / The Fable of Arachne (c. 1655–60).”
