Tag: Carlo Dolci
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11 Works, Today, May 25th. is Carlo Dolci’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #143
In this intimate copper, destined for private devotion, we find the Magdalene repenting in the wilderness, her alluring nakedness reminding us of her unchaste past. Her breasts are exposed and the blue folds of her robes reveal her leg up to the thigh in a scene that, for all its allusion to the vanity of…
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11 Works, Today, May 25th. is Carlo Dolci’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #143
In this intimate copper, destined for private devotion, we find the Magdalene repenting in the wilderness, her alluring nakedness reminding us of her unchaste past. Her breasts are exposed and the blue folds of her robes reveal her leg up to the thigh in a scene that, for all its allusion to the vanity of…
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Agnolo Gaddi, Álvaro Pires de Évora, Alvaro Portoghese, Carlo Dolci, Herri met de Bles, NETHERLANDISH SCHOOL, RELIGIOUS ART, Zaidan,
Herri met de Bles, BOUVINES CIRCA 1510 – AFTER 1550 ANTWERP EXTENSIVE COASTAL LANDSCAPE WITH THE CALLING OF SAINT PETER Oil on oak panel 32 x 50 cm.; 12 5/8 x 19 3/4 in Private collection The subject here is taken from the Gospel of Saint John, XXI, 6–10; the figures enacting it are typically set…