This painting may have been part of the most influential and important group of altarpieces painted in Siena in the fourteenth century. The city’s cathedral was dedicated to the Virgin, and ...

The man looks directly and intensely at us, his face has strong rugged features, a closed mouth, and broad nose, his ears appear slightly uneven on his head. Van Gogh’s ink strokes are similar to his ...

The painting of a man wearing a tuxedo standing in front of a light gray wall. The left arm is bent at waist level, the hand holds a small white object between the fingers. The right arm is bent in a ...

The fair skinned man looks over his right shoulder toward the viewer with soft dark eyes, short dark hair with thin beard and moustache. The face is the most defined part of this self portrait of the ...

With her large body and frontal pose, the Virgin here functions as a throne for Christ, a visual expression of her status as the Mother of God and source of wisdom. While the symmetry and rigid ...

Quickly brushed, brightly painted, slanting strokes depict a still life of a bowl of peaches on a table at center left. Four ripe peaches in orange and yellow are visible piled into a round porcelain ...

An oil painting portrays a younger man. His face is turned three quarters while his eyes look straight ahead. His black hair is brushed back, and his beard is short. He wears a black blazer jacket, ...

A man seated in a chair with a carved back and a rose colored cushion sits in three quarter profile facing right, turning his head to look at us. He wears a white wig, its shoulder length curls ...

This elaborate oil sketch, or modello, was created for the “triumphal entry” of Cardinal Infante Ferdinand into Antwerp, a spectacular procession featuring music, theater, and enormous painted ...

On the side of the coin on the left is a man's head facing right, short tendrils of curly hair sit atop head; surrounding the border, small dots and the Latin characters: B R V T / I M P / P L A E T / ...

On the side of the coin on the left is the bust of a man facing right, tendrils of curly hair held in place with a laurel wreath, drapery over shoulder; surrounding the border, the Latin characters: I ...

The gilt bronze sculpture is of a person standing upright and facing the viewer. They are standing barefoot on a small pedestal detailed with petals. The person’s right arm is down by their side, palm ...