Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452, Vinci, d. 1519, Cloux)
1498
The Last Supper
Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
Tempera and oil over ground limestone in glue medium 460*880 cm
Raphael (b. 1483, Urbino, d. 1520, Rome)
1509
The School of Athens
Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican
Fresco width 770 cm at base
Jan Witdoek (after Rubens)
c. 1638
The Meeting of Abraham and Melchidezek
Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Line engraving, black chalk and brown wash 40.5*44.5 cm
This engraving by Witdoek is based on an
sketch by Rubens (Wallraf Richartz-Museum, Cologne). A
related sketch is in the Musee des Beaux Arts, Caen.
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (b. 1577, Siegen, d. 1640, Antwerp)
c. 1625
The Meeting of Abraham and Melchidezek
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
445*571 cm
Rembrandt (b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)
1648
Supper at Emmaus
Louvre, Paris
Oil on canvas 42*60 cm
Rembrandt (b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)
1655
Ecce Homo (Christ shown to the people)
National Gallery of Scotland
Etching and drypoint 38.30 x 45.50 cm
This is the fifth state of the composition. In the
seventh and final state, Rembrandt scratched out the mob, leaving two cavernous arches below the platform and turning the Presentation of Christ into a direct confrontation with the viewer (National Gallery of Scotland).
A
modello (1633) for an earlier etching of the same theme is in the National Gallery.
Jan Gossaert (Mabuse) (b. ca. 1478, Maubeuge, d. 1532, Middelburg)
1527
Danaë
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Oil tempera on wood 113.5*95 cm
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (b. 1577, Siegen, d. 1640, Antwerp)
c. 1620
Diana and her nymphs surprised by Satyrs
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Oil on canvas 190*249 cm
Diego Velazquez (b. 1599, Seville, d. 1660, Madrid)
1652
Portrait of Philip IV
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Oil on canvas 47*37.5 cm
