Vesuvius in eruption, with spectators on the beach at Naples and the Neapolitan skyline in the foreground. Colour process print after J.M.W. Turner.

The present canvas is signed and dated “Jusepe de Ribera español 1633” on the stone at the lower right corner, a formula used by the artist throughout the 1630s and to which on occ...

The present canvas is signed and dated “Jusepe de Ribera español 1633” on the stone at the lower right corner, a formula used by the artist throughout the 1630s and to which on occ...

A lively scene with the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius in the background. A group of four people, finely dressed, are dancing in the foreground. To the left, a man sits playing a three...

Unlike the Hudson River artists who, encouraged by the aesthetic categories of the sublime and the picturesque, centred on striking nature settings full of cataracts and large moun...

František I (Francesco I.) Neapolitan (19. 8/1777, Naples - 8/11. 1830, Naples), son of the King of the Eyes of Sicily Ferdinand I (12/1/1759, Naples - 4/1/1825, Naples) of the gen...

The eruption of Mt Vesuvius on 8 August 1779 caused great panic with Neapolitans, for it reminded them of the catastrophe that destroyed Pompeii in AD 79. Although it is uncertain ...

Knip’s annotation led to some confusion. While there is a place called Annunziata, it lies more to the south, farther south even than Naples, on the same peninsula as Sorrento. The...