Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (b. 1696, Venice, d. 1770, Madrid)
1746-47
The Meeting of Anthony and Cleopatra
Palazzo Labia, Venice
Fresco 650*300 cm
Frontispiece
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (b. 1696, Venice, d. 1770, Madrid)
1746-47
The Banquet of Cleopatra
Palazzo Labia, Venice
Fresco 650*300 cm
Frontispiece
Albrech Durer (b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)
1512
Christ before Caiaphas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Engraving 11.7*7.4 cm
This engraving is based on the
Christ before Caiaphas in the Green Passion series dated 1504 (Albertina, Vienna). Durer produced a related woodcut (British Museum) in 1511.
xii
Jan van Goyen (b. 1595, Leiden, d. 1656, Den Haag)
1653
River scene
National Gallery of Canada
Black chalk with grey wash 11.4*20.7 cm
View of the Merwede (University collection, Göttingen)
1
Alessandro Filipepi, called Botticelli (b. 1445, Florence, d. 1510, Florence)
c. 1485
The Birth of Venus
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Tempera on canvas 172.5*278.5 cm
2
Lorenzo di Credi (b. c.1459, Florence, d. 1537, Florence)
c. 1493
Venus
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Oil on canvas, 151*69 cm
3
Gerard TerBorch (b. 1617, Zwolle, Holland d. 1681, Deventer)
c. 1657
The Concert
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Oil on wood, 47*44 cm
4
Gabriel Metsu (b. 1629, Leiden, d. 1667, Amsterdam)
1662
A Young Woman Composing Music
Mauritshuis, The Hague
Oak panel 57.8*43.5 cm
The Letter Writer Surprised 1660 Wallace Collection, London
5