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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This painting from the late period of the artist was executed for a cell in the Certosa di Pavia. In the background two seated monks can be seen.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In the background to the right, the Charterhouse at Pavia is seen in the course of construction which suggests the dating for this picture. Bergognone was one of the leading painters in Milan at the time, and made several paintings for Pavia
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This is the companion-piece of the Portrait of a Young Man.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Until 1861 the painting was attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger. The picture, showing Venetian innfluences, is a masterpiece of the Renaissance painting in Augsburg. A companion-piece Portrait of a Young Woman is also in the Hermitage.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The composition of this painting is close to that of a large altarpiece painted by Altomonte in 1723-24 for high altar of the church of the Carmelites (Karmeliterkirche) in Linz. The painting is signed and dated bottom right: Martino Altomonte / Pinx. Ao. 1737.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Christopher Columbus (c. 1451-1506) was a navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. This portrait was painted half a century after his death. There are no certain contemporary images of the navigator, who was only one among many when he first set out in ships funded in part by Medici money.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The view is probably a capriccio of various of the abbeys set among ponds in the rolling woodland to the south and east of Brussels.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Denis van Alsloot was a Flemish painter who specialized in pageant and procession scenes.