Venus and Cupid by Lavinia Fontana
Open the curtain on a private, polished fantasy. A young woman, pearls at ear and throat, meets your gaze with poised calm. Over luminous skin lies a transparent veil stitched with gold thread—a fabric that “reveals more than it conceals.” At her shoulder, Cupid sidles in like a conspirator, sealing the...
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio
Christ returns to the disciples a week after the Resurrection and invites Thomas—who had said he would not believe without touching—to put his finger in the wound. Two other apostles (commonly read as Peter and John) lean in to witness the proof.
Caravaggio crops the scene waist-high,...
The Poppy Field (Landscape at Giverny) by Willard L. Metcalf
A low meadow stung with red poppies rolls toward a line of tiled farm roofs and tree masses under a pewter sky. The verso note identifies the viewpoint as near Monet’s house at Giverny, making this one of the earliest American impressions painted in Monet’s orbit.
Metcalf...
The Triumph of the Church by Peter Paul Rubens
Rubens stages an allegorical triumph celebrating the Roman Catholic Church and the Eucharist. A personification of Ecclesia rides in a chariot, bearing or attending a monstrance (Eucharist) while the pageant tramples vices and enemiesbelow—figures of Fury, Discord, Hatred / Ignorance,...
Portrait of Maria de’ Medici by Agnolo Bronzino
Bronzino isolates the young princess against a deep black ground, presenting a mask-like calm that’s all courtly decorum.
She wears a netted partlet over a jewel-trimmed bodice; a double strand of pearls with a pendant, drop-pearl earrings, and a pearl-set fillet crown the look—Medici...
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