At the close of the 16th century, Northern Europe was reeling from the devastation wrought from the 30 Years War and the near destruction of the Netherlands in the process. The Hapsburg Empire’s attempts to maintain control of the Lowlands by way of terror and suppression left in its wake a countryside whose economic base ...
Praised for his use of color, his soft, perfectly measured brushwork, and his sense of composition, Gaspare Landi (6 January 1756 – 28 February 1830) – considered one of the great practitioners of Italian Neoclassical painting – acquired fame and received numerous commissions for mythological and religious paintings and portraits. Gaspare Landi (1756-1830) Incontro di Ettore con AndromacaItaly, ...
hello Guido Reni, attr. (1575-1642)Madonna che allatta il Bambino (Nursing Madonna and Child with an Angel) c. 1609 Oil on canvas22 x 25 inches31 x 34.4 inches framedProvenance:Private collection, NJPrivate collection, Stamford, CTPrivate collection, Washington, DC Some time in 1702, Pope Clement XI asked the painter Giuseppe Ghezzi to organize an exhibition of select paintings in the galleries ...