The Louvre: Fifty Plates in Colour

Mantegna’s _Parnassus_ (No. 1375, Plate XIV.) illustrates the _amours_ of Mars and Venus, which were discovered by her husband, Vulcan. In the foreground the Muses are dancing....

Yet another deservedly famous work by Murillo, removed from a Franciscan convent at Seville by the insatiable greed of Marshal Soult, is the now extensively restored large pictu...

From the same church in Pisa comes Giotto’s _St. Francis of Assisi receiving the Stigmata_ (No. 1312). According to the descriptive account handed down to us by the unveracious...

Although Gerard Honthorst (“Gerard of the Night”) was born as early as 1590, and was a pupil of Blomaert, he may he relegated to the period of decline. Almost invariably he reso...

The first definite name in the annals of the Cologne school is that of Bartolomäus Bruyn (_c._ 1493-1555), who was a follower of Joos van Cleef but subsequently became completel...

Some of the master’s most precious works at the Louvre belong to his second Antwerp period, which extended from his return from Genoa in 1628 to his departure for England in 163...

In spite of the repelling fierceness, the fanaticism, the cruelty of every single face—all of them portraits, no doubt—in the _St. Basil dictating his Doctrine_ (No. 1706) at th...

With Antonio Pollaiuolo (1429-1498) and his brother Piero (1443-1496) we enter on a more scientific era in Florentine art. Masaccio had already advanced the study of the nude, a...

Joseph Parrocel (1678-1704), who, during a prolonged visit to Rome had benefited by Borgognone’s teaching, could not, after his return to France in 1675, escape the current of t...

A striking, although mediocre, _Family of the Virgin_ (No. 1284) by Lorenzo de’ Fasoli, who is also known as Lorenzo di Pavia, and who died about 1520, illustrates the tradition...

It is not known for certain whether Jan Steen (1626?-1679) was a pupil of Nicholaes Knupfer, a native of Leipzig who resided for a time at Leyden, but he certainly worked under...

In the early years of Rosso’s and Primaticcio’s activity at Fontainebleau practically all the work was done by these two painters and their Italian assistants, whose band was jo...

An angel in a blue alb and with peacock-blue wings is placing an elaborate gold crown on the head of the Madonna, who holds the Infant Christ on her knee, and is seated towards...

In 1681 the Crown pictures and other royal art treasures were brought to the Louvre from Versailles and were temporarily exhibited there, the king paying a state visit to the ca...

By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence had become the æsthetic capital of Italy, and painters innumerable were plying their trade within her walls. As they worked in clos...

The period of the great struggle of the Netherlands for religious and political independence from the yoke of Spain and the Inquisition was not propitious for the fostering of t...

A man of profound culture and rare critical acumen, Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876) was perhaps greater as a critic than as a painter. He, too, travelled repeatedly in Algeria and...

The influence of Giorgione is still clearly seen in Titian’s _Man with a Glove_ (No. 1592, Plate XII.). It is a noble portrait of an unknown man; the colour is rich, and the lig...

By far his most famous picture is the gigantic _Funeral at Ornans_ (No. 143), which, as a study of the life and types in a small French provincial town, has aptly been compared...

Rubens, P. P., 3, 7, 10, 66, 111, 125, 131, 135-139, 141, 146, 149, 151-153, 155, 171, 241, 254, 258, 263, 266, 281. _Henry IV. leaves for the War_, Plate XXI.; _Hélène Fourment...

Two years before his death Raphael had designed the large but by no means imposing _St. Michael overcoming Satan_ (No. 1504), the execution of which on panel was certainly due t...

When Napoleon rose to power, David became his favourite painter. The erstwhile Jacobin was chosen to paint the official _Coronation_ picture (No. 202A), an enormous canvas, whic...

Whilst such painters as Jean Restout (1692-1768) still continued to follow the tradition of the Bolognese eclectics, as may be seen in his _Herminia and the Shepherd_ (No. 775),...

As his name denotes, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669) was born on the banks of the Rhine, his father being a miller at Leyden. When fourteen years of age he entered the u...

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