16th century paintings
Fresco: ''Defence of an Italian city'' Italy, 15th century
Fresco painted on gesso and transferred to canvas, Italy, 15th century
Dimensions 133cm x 173cm
Praying Madonna and child in front of Gothic window with gold background,
Italy 1500
Tempera on wooden panel 29 cm x 17 cm
'Mary and Jesus' tempera on panel 16th century Italian Renaissance Dim. :+/-78.5x64cm.
Lucas Cranach the Elder (German: Lucas Cranach der Ältere) (Kronach, 1472 – Weimar, 16 October 1553) was a German painter, engraver and etcher of the Renaissance period.
He was the father of the painters Hans Cranach and Lucas Cranach the Younger.
“A happy couple”, Atelier Lucas Cranach the Elder and Lucas Cranachde Younger
Tempera on panel 53 cm x 37 cm parquet.
Based on an apparently great commercial success, the pictorial theme of the unlikely couple became one of the most repeated themes in the Cranach workshop. The digital corpus of Cranach currently lists 129 works in this group of works alone. They all go back to a prototype made by Cranach the Elder. back, which is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (inv. no. GG 895). This is dated around 1530. The pictorial theme can be traced back to antiquity, north of the Alps Jacopo de Barbari, Cranach's predecessor as court painter in Wittenberg, was probably the first to depict it. The important scholar and humanist Erasmus von Rotterdam anticipates the pictorial theme in his famous satire "Lof der dwaasheid(1509) and makes fun of those older, toothless, white-haired men who propose to young women. The young woman in Cranach the Elder .Ä. is dressed according to the latest fashions in the present version, her carefully coiffed hair is encircled by a hair net and she wears valuable necklaces. However, their eyes do not meet. While he may be thinking in anticipation of one of the nights to come, it seems in her imagination already in a promising future after his death
,,Maria Magdalena” Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656)
Gerard Hermansz. van Honthorst (Utrecht, November 4, 1592 - Utrecht, April 27, 1656) was a Dutch painter, one of the most gifted followers of Caravaggio. He is counted among the Utrecht Caravaggists. He was one of the few painters with an international reputation
Gothic 15th century painting:
The Beheading of John the Baptist.
Tempera on panel +/- 100x80 cm
Origin: Germany/France
Antique painting oil on copper 16th century depicting 'H.Barbara' Dimensions 15.5 x 12.5 cm.
Lorenzo Garbieri (1580 Bologna - 1654) Madonna with child and goldfinch. 1613"
Oil on canvas 109 x 79 cm, with frame 130 x 100 cm.
Signed and dated: Lor. Gar 1613.
- Lit.: Maestri della Pittura del Seicento emiliano, catalog of the Bologna exhibition 1959, pp. 102-105, cat. and Figs. 43, 44 (B); Le dessin à Bologne 1580 - 1620, catalog of the Paris exhibition, Louve, Cabinet des Dessins, 1994, cat.no. 96.
, Ceres' , attributed to Frans Floris de Vriendt, Antwerp, 16th century Demeter loved her daughter very much and watched over her like a mother hen. Yet Persephone was kidnapped just as she was picking flowers in the field. Hades, the god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, came out of a chasm in the womb of the earth in a horse-drawn carriage and pulled her onto his chariot. Persephone cried out for help, but to no avail: she disappeared with him into the darkness. panel wood 95 cm x 128 cm
