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Bernardo Strozzi - Adoration of the Shepherds - Google Art Project

Bernardo Strozzi - Adoration of the Shepherds - Google Art Project

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Abraham Bloemaert - Parable of the Wheat and the Tares - Walters 372505

Abraham Bloemaert - Parable of the Wheat and the Tares - Walters 37250...

In this parable from the Gospel of Matthew, the devil, identified by his horns and tail, sows weeds (or tares) in the field where wheat has been planted, while the lazy peasants are sleeping. Christians conside... More

Adam Bernaert - "Vanitas" Still Life - Walters 37682

Adam Bernaert - "Vanitas" Still Life - Walters 37682

The Dutch "vanitas" (Latin for vanity) still life brings together the prevailing moral tone and an appreciation of everyday objects: how vain and insignificant are human concerns, and, therefore, how important ... More

Adam Elsheimer - Tobias and the Angel (Apocrypha, Tobit, V-VI) - Walters 371140

Adam Elsheimer - Tobias and the Angel (Apocrypha, Tobit, V-VI) - Walte...

Follower of Adam Elsheimer (German, 1578-1610). 'Tobias and the Angel (Apocrypha, Tobit, V-VI),' 17th century. oil on copper. Walters Art Museum (37.1140): Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collecti... More

Adriaen Brouwer - Two Peasants in an Inn - Walters 372409

Adriaen Brouwer - Two Peasants in an Inn - Walters 372409

Here, as in the Jolly Drinker (Walters 37.2745), attention is paid to the expression of frank emotions. This painting is in the sketch-like manner of Flemish artist Adriaen Brouwer but is not by him. The play o... More

Adriaen van Nieulandt the younger - Prince Maurits with His Horse and Groom - Walters 372507

Adriaen van Nieulandt the younger - Prince Maurits with His Horse and ...

Maurits, prince of Orange (1567-1625) and "stadholder" of the United Provinces, was very successful as the commander of the republic's military forces. The war with Spain dragged on for two decades after his de... More

Agostino Masucci - Portrait of a Noble Boy in Oriental Costume - Walters 37857

Agostino Masucci - Portrait of a Noble Boy in Oriental Costume - Walte...

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Agostino Tassi - Landscape with a Scene of Witchcraft - Walters 371145

Agostino Tassi - Landscape with a Scene of Witchcraft - Walters 371145

A witch seated in a landscape and accompanied by a monster is casting spells with macabre objects, including a human skull. Tassi specialized in the representation of landscapes and architecture. In this painti... More

Alessandro Turchi - Saint Agatha Attended by Saint Peter and an Angel in Prison - Walters 37552

Alessandro Turchi - Saint Agatha Attended by Saint Peter and an Angel ...

According to an early Christian legend, when a 3rd-century Roman official of Sicily desired the Christian woman Agatha, and she refused to yield to his advances, he had her tortured, and even ordered her breast... More

Alonso Cano - Christ and Two Followers on the Road to Emmaus - Walters 372770

Alonso Cano - Christ and Two Followers on the Road to Emmaus - Walters...

On the third day after the Crucifixion, two of Christ's disciples walked toward Emmaus and met a traveler, who was actually Christ, though they did not recognize him. They talked about the recent sorrowful even... More

Angelo Caroselli - Saint Jerome in the Wilderness - Walters 371910

Angelo Caroselli - Saint Jerome in the Wilderness - Walters 371910

The theologian St. Jerome (ca. 340-420) is shown meditating on the cross of Christ during his four years of penitence in the Syrian desert when he was in his 30s. However, his great service to the Church was hi... More

Anthony van Dyck - Virgin and Child - Walters 37234

Anthony van Dyck - Virgin and Child - Walters 37234

This Virgin and Child subtly incorporates traditional allusions to the miraculous. Mary's long, loose hair identifies her as a virgin, alluding to the virgin birth. The palatial column evokes her future reign a... More

Bartholomaüs Bruyn the younger - Portrait of a Young Woman with a Pink - Walters 371847

Bartholomaüs Bruyn the younger - Portrait of a Young Woman with a Pink...

This young woman offers a pink (or dianthus, related to the carnation) to someone on her right, probably her betrothed. The sweet-smelling pink symbolized a young woman's hopes for marriage. At her waist is a g... More

Bartholomaüs Bruyn the younger - Portrait of a Young Woman with a Pink - Walters 371847FXD

Bartholomaüs Bruyn the younger - Portrait of a Young Woman with a Pink...

This young woman offers a pink (or dianthus, related to the carnation) to someone on her right, probably her betrothed. The sweet-smelling pink symbolized a young woman's hopes for marriage. At her waist is a g... More

Bartolomeo Pedon - Moonlit Landscape with Ruined Castle - Walters 37348

Bartolomeo Pedon - Moonlit Landscape with Ruined Castle - Walters 3734...

Pedon's nocturnal landscape with the eerie ruins of a castle is lit by the moon and a small fire that is reflected in the water. Some figures can be discerned, such as the two soldiers in the foreground, but th... More

Bartolomeo Schedoni - The Infant Christ Sleeping - Walters 37611

Bartolomeo Schedoni - The Infant Christ Sleeping - Walters 37611

In the strong, harsh light, the naked, sleeping baby Jesus appears alarmingly vulnerable yet monumentally imposing, in contrast to the tiny figures of his mother and St. Joseph in the background. The death-like... More

Bernardo Strozzi - Adoration of the Shepherds - Walters 37277

Bernardo Strozzi - Adoration of the Shepherds - Walters 37277

The Evangelist Luke recorded that the birth of Christ was announced first to shepherds, who then went to Bethlehem to find the baby, but his Gospel does not state that they worshipped Jesus. This interpretation... More

Carlo Francesco Nuvolone - Madonna and Child - Walters 37463

Carlo Francesco Nuvolone - Madonna and Child - Walters 37463

The Madonna holds the Christ Child, who raises two fingers in a gesture of blessing. Their tender bond expressed through the sweetness and gracefulness of the figures reveals Nuvolone's study of the famous Mado... More

Cesare Rossetti - Saint George and the Dragon - Walters 371769

Cesare Rossetti - Saint George and the Dragon - Walters 371769

The veneration of St. George, a Palestinian Christian soldier (d. ca. 303), as a symbol of chivalry and courage in overcoming seemingly insurmountable evil, is distilled in the legend of his killing a dragon. T... More

Christoph Paudiss - Saint Andrew the Apostle - Walters 37649

Christoph Paudiss - Saint Andrew the Apostle - Walters 37649

Christoph Paudiss was a little-known German artist who studied with Rembrandt during the 1640s. Paudiss's ethereal depiction of Andrew, one of Christ's original disciples, meditating on the cross upon which he ... More

Christoph Unterberger - The Apotheosis of Hercules - Walters 371698

Christoph Unterberger - The Apotheosis of Hercules - Walters 371698

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Cornelis van Poelenburgh - Portrait of Jan Pellicorne - Walters 38226

Cornelis van Poelenburgh - Portrait of Jan Pellicorne - Walters 38226

This delicate, fanciful portrait and its pair, Walters 38.227, were probably made as mementos of the marriage in 1626 of Jan Pellicorne (1597-after 1653) and Susanna van Collen, both from wealthy merchant famil... More

Cornelis van Poelenburgh - Portrait of Susanna van Collen - Walters 38227

Cornelis van Poelenburgh - Portrait of Susanna van Collen - Walters 38...

Susanna van Collen (1606-37) wears the simple, loose garments, gaily-striped silk scarf from Asia, and uncovered hair (with pearls from the East Indies) of a wealthy lady posing as a shepherdess of antiquity. T... More

Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen - Portrait of a Young Man - Walters 371202

Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen - Portrait of a Young Man - Walters 37120...

The splendid split-sleeve jacket and fine lace collar, the height of English court fashion in the late 1630s, suggest that the sitter belongs to the English aristocracy. Janssen was among the portraitists influ... More

David Colyn - Joseph Thrown into a Pit - Walters 372434

David Colyn - Joseph Thrown into a Pit - Walters 372434

Joseph, one of the biblical patriarch Jacob's twelve sons, was thrown into a pit by his brothers, who resented their father's favoritism towards him. Although they sold him into slavery, he rose to become maste... More

David Teniers II - The Guard Room - Walters 371692

David Teniers II - The Guard Room - Walters 371692

In the 1640s, at the end of the Thirty Years War (1618-48) pitting Protestants against Catholics, military life was a popular subject for art. Teniers represents a guard room, where soldiers passed their time b... More

Denys van Alsloot - Landscape with Tobias and the Angel - Walters 37350

Denys van Alsloot - Landscape with Tobias and the Angel - Walters 3735...

The archangel Raphael was sent to guide the young Tobias on his travels to complete a transaction for his father, as recounted in the Catholic Old Testament Book of Tobit. One of the supernatural wonders that o... More

Domenico Antonio Vaccaro - Allegory of the Papacy of Clement XI - Walters 371897

Domenico Antonio Vaccaro - Allegory of the Papacy of Clement XI - Walt...

In this allegory, various symbolic motifs are brought together to express Clement XI's papacy (r. 1700-1721) as an abstract concept. The standing woman at center wearing the papal tiara is holding her cape in a... More

Domenico Corvi - Allegory of Painting - Walters 371011

Domenico Corvi - Allegory of Painting - Walters 371011

This young woman with her palette and brushes is not seriously engaged in painting. Contemplating her reflection in a mirror held by a winged cupid, she is a personification of the self-conscious beauty that wa... More

Domenico Fetti - Christ and the Tribute Money - Walters 37582

Domenico Fetti - Christ and the Tribute Money - Walters 37582

The Pharisees tried to trap Christ by asking him whether people should pay taxes to the Romans. Pointing to a denarius (Roman coin with the image of the emperor), he replied: "Give to the emperor the things tha... More

Domenico Fetti - Flying and Adoring Angels - Walters 371027

Domenico Fetti - Flying and Adoring Angels - Walters 371027

This early work by Fetti was installed in the chapel of the Mainardi family in the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso in Rome. It was painted as a background for an image of the Virgin and Child in an oval frame. ... More

Dutch - Portrait Bust of a Woman in Friesian Costume - Walters 38552

Dutch - Portrait Bust of a Woman in Friesian Costume - Walters 38552

This piece is a pair with Walters 38.553. This painting depicts a wife, and the companion painting depicts her husband. These tiny little miniatures were surely intended for personal contemplation, perhaps as a... More

Dutch - Portrait Bust of Husband of Woman in Friesian Costume - Walters 38553

Dutch - Portrait Bust of Husband of Woman in Friesian Costume - Walter...

This piece is a pair with Walters 38.552. This painting depicts a husband and the companion painting depicts his wife. While the husband's collar and the wife's starched ruff were worn throughout the Dutch Repu... More

Dutch - Portrait of a Family - Walters 37287

Dutch - Portrait of a Family - Walters 37287

It was in the Dutch Republic that the family portrait first became a significant subject, particularly among the middle class. This is due, in part, to the important role of women in Dutch society as well as to... More

Dutch - Portrait of a Gentleman - Walters 38225

Dutch - Portrait of a Gentleman - Walters 38225

Small portraits of those to whom one was connected by family, friendship, or political allegiance were treasured first as likenesses and second as works of art. Just as today, a "good" photo of someone is one t... More

Dutch - Portrait of a Man - Walters 38209

Dutch - Portrait of a Man - Walters 38209

The identical silver filigree frame on these three portraits (including 38.516 and 38.210) indicates that they are a unit, possibly a family. Nevertheless, the man's portrait was probably by a different hand th... More

Dutch - Portrait of a Man - Walters 38232

Dutch - Portrait of a Man - Walters 38232

Small portraits of those to whom one was connected by family, friendship, or political allegiance were treasured first as likenesses and second as works of art. Just as today, a "good" photo of someone is one t... More

Dutch - Portrait of a Woman - Walters 38210

Dutch - Portrait of a Woman - Walters 38210

The identical silver filigree frame on these three portraits (including 38.209 and 38.516) indicates that they are a unit, possibly a family. Nevertheless, the man's portrait was probably by a different hand th... More

Dutch - Portrait of a Young Woman - Walters 38516

Dutch - Portrait of a Young Woman - Walters 38516

The identical silver filigree frame on these three portraits (including 38.209 and 38.210) indicates that they are a unit, possibly a family. Nevertheless, the man's portrait was probably by a different hand th... More

Dutch - Portrait of the Poet Homer - Walters 37646

Dutch - Portrait of the Poet Homer - Walters 37646

The old man honored by a laurel wreath is Homer, the greatest poet of antiquity, identified by the inscription on the sheet of paper with the names of the cities that claimed Homer as a native. This imaginary ... More

Elisabetta Sirani - Judith with the Head of Holofernes - Walters 37253

Elisabetta Sirani - Judith with the Head of Holofernes - Walters 37253

According to the Book of Judith, the Jewish widow Judith saved the Israelites from the Assyrians by decapitating their general Holofernes, whose army had besieged her city. She did this after having made him dr... More

Flemish - Constantine the Great at the Milvian Bridge - Walters 371117

Flemish - Constantine the Great at the Milvian Bridge - Walters 371117

Constantine the Great (ca. AD 275-337) converted to Christianity before he defeated his rivals for control of Rome in a crucial battle at the Milvian Bridge over the Tiber River in 312. The belief that the vict... More

Flemish - Diana and Her Nymphs after Their Hunt - Walters 372498

Flemish - Diana and Her Nymphs after Their Hunt - Walters 372498

Hunting was a privilege and favored pastime of the aristocracy. Most hunting took place in parks and private hunting preserves, like those maintained by Archdukes Albert and Isabella near their palace in Brusse... More

Flemish - Portrait of a Man - Walters 37613

Flemish - Portrait of a Man - Walters 37613

This gentleman wears the sober but elegant Spanish-inspired costume of the upper classes in the Southern Netherlands. His alert manner is underlined by the dapper, assertive pose of his hand on his hip. In the ... More

Flemish - Portrait of a Woman - Walters 38519

Flemish - Portrait of a Woman - Walters 38519

Small portraits of those to whom one was connected by family, friendship, or political allegiance were treasured first as likenesses and second as works of art. Just as today, a "good" photo of someone is one t... More

Follower of Guido Reni - Cupid with a Bow - Walters 37491

Follower of Guido Reni - Cupid with a Bow - Walters 37491

This painting repeats, almost exactly, the composition of a smaller canvas attributed to Guido Reni that was in the collection of the dukes of Leuchtenberg in Munich and in St. Petersburg around the middle of t... More

Francesco de Mura - Pietà - Walters 371125

Francesco de Mura - Pietà - Walters 371125

A Pietà (meaning compassion in Italian) is the image of the Virgin Mary mourning her dead son. In the Bible, she mourns along with others. Isolating her focuses the viewer's attention on her suffering and her c... More

Francesco Guardi - A Venetian Courtyard - Walters 37607

Francesco Guardi - A Venetian Courtyard - Walters 37607

This view into a Venetian courtyard shows people engaged in everyday activities, such as a woman washing clothes. The focus of the painting, however, is on the beauty of the decaying architecture and the rich t... More

Francesco Guardi - The Arsenal, Venice - Walters 37615

Francesco Guardi - The Arsenal, Venice - Walters 37615

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Francesco Pascucci - A Miracle of St Nicholas of Bari - Walters 371129

Francesco Pascucci - A Miracle of St Nicholas of Bari - Walters 371129

Francesco Pascucci (Italian, active 1787-1803). 'A Miracle of St. Nicholas of Bari,' 1770-1779. oil on copper. Walters Art Museum (37.1129): Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902.

Francesco Solimena - The Abduction of Orithyia - Walters 371695

Francesco Solimena - The Abduction of Orithyia - Walters 371695

This composition, a copy of a replica of around 1730 by the great Neapolitan artist Solimena after his own earlier painting of 1701, represents a scene adapted from "The Metamorphoses," the famous poem on the l... More

Franciscus Haagen - Portrait of a Young Woman in Satin - Walters 37265

Franciscus Haagen - Portrait of a Young Woman in Satin - Walters 37265

Dressed in satin with a pearl choker in the fashion popular during the late 1600s, this young, aristocratic lady sits before a wild landscape that suggests the park of a vast estate. Below her elbow on a rock i... More

Frans Francken II - Christ Carrying the Cross - Walters 372624

Frans Francken II - Christ Carrying the Cross - Walters 372624

The procession engulfing Christ carrying his cross to Calvary winds out of the city at the left, into the foreground, and back to Calvary at the far right. The oblong shape suggests that the canvas was painted ... More

Frans Francken II - King Solomon Receiving the Queen of Sheba - Walters 372746

Frans Francken II - King Solomon Receiving the Queen of Sheba - Walter...

The queen of Sheba- reported in 1 Kings to have journeyed to Jerusalem to test King Solomon's wisdom and see the splendor of his court -was thought by some 17th-century European scholars to have come from Ethio... More

Frans Hals - Portrait Bust of a Man - Walters 37345

Frans Hals - Portrait Bust of a Man - Walters 37345

Copy after Frans Hals (Dutch, ca. 1581-1666). 'Portrait Bust Of A Man,' 17th century. oil on canvas. Walters Art Museum (37.345): M.KNOEDLER/ NEW YORK.

Frans Pourbus the younger - Portrait of a Noblewoman - Walters 37377

Frans Pourbus the younger - Portrait of a Noblewoman - Walters 37377

The intricate gold and enamel filigree collar and diamond pendant are quite fine, but it is the embroidered bodice and ruff of exquisite needlepoint in the Spanish style that really speak to this noblewoman's w... More

Franz Werner von Tamm - Still Life of Flowers and Fruits in a Garden - Walters 371674

Franz Werner von Tamm - Still Life of Flowers and Fruits in a Garden -...

A deceptively casual cascade of sweet-smelling roses, tulips, and other cultivated flowers combined with luscious, ripe fruit including a melon, grapes, and a pomegranate sliced open is set before a classicizin... More

François de Nomé - Head of Saint John the Baptist Presented to Salome - Walters 37329

François de Nomé - Head of Saint John the Baptist Presented to Salome ...

These scenes from earliest Christian history are set amid fantasy architecture, mysteriously lit under dark skies. The small scale of the figures makes the buildings seem enormous. De Nomé has imagined ancient ... More

François de Nomé - St Paul Preaching to the Athenians - Walters 37328

François de Nomé - St Paul Preaching to the Athenians - Walters 37328

These scenes from earliest Christian history are set amid fantasy architecture, mysteriously lit under dark skies. The small scale of the figures makes the buildings seem enormous. De Nomé has imagined ancient ... More

French - Locket for a Portrait Miniature - Walters 38229

French - Locket for a Portrait Miniature - Walters 38229

Anonymous (French). 'Locket for a Portrait Miniature,' 17th century. gold with cloisonn� enamel. Walters Art Museum (38.229): Gift of A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963.

French - Locket for a Portrait Miniature - Walters 44406

French - Locket for a Portrait Miniature - Walters 44406

Anonymous (French). 'Locket for a Portrait Miniature,' 1600-1625. gold, glass, "en r�sille" enamel. Walters Art Museum (44.406): Acquired by Henry Walters.

French - Portrait Bust of a Young Boy - Walters 371813

French - Portrait Bust of a Young Boy - Walters 371813

Anonymous (Dutch). 'Portrait Bust Young Boy,' 17th century. oil on canvas. Walters Art Museum (37.1813): Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902.

French - Portrait of a Lady, Allegorical - Walters 37216

French - Portrait of a Lady, Allegorical - Walters 37216

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French - Portrait of Béatrice de Cusance, Princess of Cantecroix - Walters 4443

French - Portrait of Béatrice de Cusance, Princess of Cantecroix - Wal...

The half-length portrait represents the princess turned to the right, her face in three-quarters view. Her hair is cut with short locks at the sides, and with a slight bang over the forehead. She wears a decoll... More

French - Portrait of Charles, Prince of Lorraine - Walters 4444

French - Portrait of Charles, Prince of Lorraine - Walters 4444

The prince, at the age of seventeen, is shown half-length, his face framed in long curls and turned three-quarters to the left. He wears armor, over which is a falling linen collar with square ends edged with w... More

French - Portrait of Henry IV, King of France - Walters 3898

French - Portrait of Henry IV, King of France - Walters 3898

In an astonishing display of virtuosity and amusing artifice, the unknown miniaturist painted the French king twice, one image directly on top of the other (but in reverse and with a black jacket and black pear... More

Gabriel Metsu - The Note - Walters 37676

Gabriel Metsu - The Note - Walters 37676

Though its damaged condition makes it difficult to assess, the attribution to Metsu has recently been affirmed. The Dutch painter was one of the great interpreters of the domestic lives of the affluent in the m... More

Gaetano Gandolfi - The Marriage at Cana - Walters 371919

Gaetano Gandolfi - The Marriage at Cana - Walters 371919

This scene depicts the first miracle of Christ, related in the Gospel of John. At a wedding, after all the wine had been drunk, Jesus ordered six jars to be filled with water, which he then turned into wine. He... More

Gaspar van Wittel - View of Tivoli - Walters 371175

Gaspar van Wittel - View of Tivoli - Walters 371175

The high viewpoint allows the artist to show much of the town of Tivoli near Rome, featuring the famous circular, 1st-century BC Temple of Vesta and the bridge over the thundering falls of the Tiber River. This... More

Gerard Seghers - The Jolly Drinker - Walters 372745

Gerard Seghers - The Jolly Drinker - Walters 372745

Enjoying his beer, this smiling, disheveled peasant presses his jug to his chest and turns towards an unseen comrade. By organizing the man's gestures around a diagonal, Seghers introduces a sense of ongoing ac... More

Gerard Terborch II and Workshop - A Glass Of Lemonade - Walters 37341 (2)

Gerard Terborch II and Workshop - A Glass Of Lemonade - Walters 37341 ...

By the mid-1600s, the intimate lives of the middle class joined the raucous lives of the poor as subjects for painting. Here, an attentive young man tenderly mixes a "restorative" glass of lemonade for the youn... More

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout - Vision of Cornelius the Centurion - Walters 372492

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout - Vision of Cornelius the Centurion - Walter...

A dramatic play of light and shadow can add an emotional charge to the depiction of an event. This was the great lesson that Eeckhout absorbed from his teacher Rembrandt van Rijn in the late 1630s and was still... More

Giacomo Galli - The Penitent Mary Magdalene - Walters 37651

Giacomo Galli - The Penitent Mary Magdalene - Walters 37651

The saint is shown wistfully meditating, her head resting on her hands as she leans upon a skull set on a book, painted by Giacomo Galli, an early follower of Caravaggio. The rich brocade of her skirt reminds t... More

Giovanni Battista Gaulli - Portrait of a Man - Walters 371832

Giovanni Battista Gaulli - Portrait of a Man - Walters 371832

The glittering embroidery on the sitter's ermine-trimmed jacket recalls 17th-century Polish uniforms and suggests that he may have been a member of a visiting delegation to Rome. Born and trained in Genoa, Baci... More

Giovanni Battista Gaulli - Portrait of Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi) - Walters 37598

Giovanni Battista Gaulli - Portrait of Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi...

The stately figure of the pope sits before a lavish drapery suggesting an aristocratic setting. He raises his right hand with its papal ring in a gesture of benediction. By seeing the pope blessing his audien... More

Giovanni Battista Pittoni, the younger - The Sacrifice of Polyxena at the Tomb of Achilles - Walters 37512

Giovanni Battista Pittoni, the younger - The Sacrifice of Polyxena at ...

The tragic moment depicted is from the end of the Trojan War. According to legend, the ghost of the Greek hero Achilles demanded that the Trojan princess Polyxena be sacrificed at his tomb. Achilles's son, with... More

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva - Walters 37657

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva - Walters...

As described by the Roman historian Livy (1st century BC), the youthful Massiva was the nephew of a prince of Numidia in present-day Algeria who had supported Scipio Africanus (a Roman general so known because ... More

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Virgin and Child - Walters 371120

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Virgin and Child - Walters 371120

The use of forceful chiaroscuro (modeling in light and shade) is characteristic of Tiepolo's images of the Madonna and Child that were intended for private devotion. There is an element of melancholy in the way... More

Giovanni Odazzi - The Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Walters 371122

Giovanni Odazzi - The Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Walters 371122

To escape Herod's persecution, Mary and Joseph fled with Jesus to Egypt. The subject of the rest on the flight to Egypt was developed in late medieval art and is not described in the New Testament. In this pain... More

Giovanni Paolo Panini - Alexander the Great at the Tomb of Achilles - Walters 37510

Giovanni Paolo Panini - Alexander the Great at the Tomb of Achilles - ...

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) is said to have ordered the tomb of Achilles (Greek hero in the Trojan War) to be opened so that he could pay homage to his legendary predecessor. Achilles's tomb was in what is... More

Giovanni Paolo Panini - Alexander the Great Cutting the Gordian Knot - Walters 37516

Giovanni Paolo Panini - Alexander the Great Cutting the Gordian Knot -...

In this companion to "Alexander the Great at the Tomb of Achilles" (Walters 37.510), the Macedonian ruler and general has entered the town of Gordium (in present-day Turkey) in 344 BC. In that city was the char... More

Giovanni Paolo Panini - View of the Colosseum - Walters 372367

Giovanni Paolo Panini - View of the Colosseum - Walters 372367

This view of the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine is a somewhat fanciful reconstruction showing each monument from its best side. Fallen walls of the Colosseum have been tidied up, and several other works ... More

Giovanni Paolo Panini - View of the Roman Forum - Walters 372366

Giovanni Paolo Panini - View of the Roman Forum - Walters 372366

In creating this historical portrayal of the Roman Forum, Panini, the most celebrated Roman landscape painter of his time, eliminated some modern buildings in order not to obstruct his vista, which stretches fr... More

Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari - Susannah and the Elders - Walters 371880

Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari - Susannah and the Elders - Walters 371880

The biblical book of Daniel tells of Susanna, a married woman who is spied upon by two old judges while bathing in her garden. They attempt to force themselves upon her, saying that if she does not submit, they... More

Giuseppe Cades - The Martyrdom of the Blessed Signoretto Alliata - Walters 371831

Giuseppe Cades - The Martyrdom of the Blessed Signoretto Alliata - Wal...

Signoretto Alliata was a nobleman of Pisa who spent his life on Sicily, working in hospitals. Late in life, he became a hermit and lived in seclusion in a deserted place on the shore. According to legend, he re... More

Giuseppe Ghislandi - Portrait of a Young Nobleman - Walters 37486

Giuseppe Ghislandi - Portrait of a Young Nobleman - Walters 37486

This portrait has an informal, private character and was probably meant as a gift for a friend. The sitter's cap is the type a nobleman would don at home when not wearing his wig. Ghislandi, the greatest Lombar... More

Giuseppe Maria Crespi - The Penitent Magdalene - Walters 371130

Giuseppe Maria Crespi - The Penitent Magdalene - Walters 371130

According to Catholic tradition, Mary Magdalene was a beautiful woman who had led a sinful life. Upon meeting Christ, she repented of her former ways. This painting characteristically depicts Mary Magdalene as ... More

Giuseppe Passeri - The Cleansing of the Temple - Walters 372512

Giuseppe Passeri - The Cleansing of the Temple - Walters 372512

As told in the Gospel of Matthew, during Passover, Christ drove out the sellers of sacrificial animals and the money exchangers from the Temple in Jerusalem. Passeri imagined the Temple as a lavish structure in... More

Giuseppe Recco - Flowers by a Pond with Frogs - Walters 371856

Giuseppe Recco - Flowers by a Pond with Frogs - Walters 371856

This intriguing close-up of beautiful flowers, frogs, and insects is presented from what seems like the low viewing angle of an avid naturalist searching for specimens in the underbrush on the edge of an upland... More

Giuseppe Zais - The Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Walters 37281

Giuseppe Zais - The Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Walters 37281

This Biblical scene depicts the Holy Family resting near a river along their route on the Flight into Egypt. The branches of a palm tree visible at the left edge are the only indication of the lands through whi... More

Hendrick Bloemaert - Portrait of a Husband - Walters 372495

Hendrick Bloemaert - Portrait of a Husband - Walters 372495

Double portraits of a husband and wife from middle-class families, not just the aristocracy, were more popular in the Dutch Republic than elsewhere in Europe, in part because of the higher status of women. Such... More

Hendrick Bloemaert - Portrait of a Wife - Walters 372496

Hendrick Bloemaert - Portrait of a Wife - Walters 372496

Double portraits of a husband and wife from middle-class families, not just the aristocracy, were more popular in the Dutch Republic than elsewhere in Europe, in part because of the higher status of women. Such... More

Hendrick van Streeck - Imaginary Interior of a Protestant Church - Walters 372752

Hendrick van Streeck - Imaginary Interior of a Protestant Church - Wal...

After 1581, when the northern Netherlandish provinces declared their independence from Catholic Spain, most Dutch Catholic churches were whitewashed for the use of Protestants, especially the followers of John ... More

Henri Toutin - Oval Locket with the Four Elements - Walters 44323

Henri Toutin - Oval Locket with the Four Elements - Walters 44323

This very refined painted enamel represents female personifications of the four Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. It was probably produced in the French city of Blois, possibly in the Toutin family worksho... More

Henri Toutin - Portrait of Lady Venetia Digby - Walters 44177

Henri Toutin - Portrait of Lady Venetia Digby - Walters 44177

Venetia Stanley, Lady Digby, died in 1633, eight years after marrying Sir Kelm Digby at the age of 21. This portrait, signed and dated 1637, was completed after her death and is based on an earlier miniature pa... More

Herman Mijnert Donker - Two Boys in a Landscape - Walters 372502

Herman Mijnert Donker - Two Boys in a Landscape - Walters 372502

The body language of the older boy with his hand on hip is more assertive than that of the younger one, surely his little brother. It is a subtle sign of a social role indicating protection and authority. Donke... More

Isaak Soreau - Still Life with Chinese Bowl and Vase of Flowers - Walters 371902

Isaak Soreau - Still Life with Chinese Bowl and Vase of Flowers - Walt...

Soreau, the son of an Antwerp painter in Frankfurt, specialized in "table-top still lifes," featuring fruits, flowers, and insects depicted in ways that appeal to the senses. For example, the sheen on the grape... More

Isabella Peeters - Vase of Flowers - Walters 371829

Isabella Peeters - Vase of Flowers - Walters 371829

Fresh flowers in all their fragile, transient beauty and variety were not available in the winter nor could specimens be preserved, as could those of animals, so flower paintings, drawings, or colored prints we... More

Italian - Apollino - Walters 541691 - View A

Italian - Apollino - Walters 541691 - View A

The original ancient marble statue, depicting the Greco-Roman sun god, is called the Apollino (little Apollo) or Medici Apollo, and is now in the Uffizi Museum in Florence. Probably an adaptation of a work by t... More

Italian - Half-length of an Old Man - Walters 371834

Italian - Half-length of an Old Man - Walters 371834

Anonymous (Italian). 'Half-length of an Old Man,' ca. 1740. oil on canvas. Walters Art Museum (37.1834): Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902.

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