Eleanora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, called "La Bella" (after the painting in the Galeria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence)

"Here is portrayed three Moods of the Sky and the effects on the Fish and Animals. Sharks and Turtles come to the Surface when it is Raining. Wallabies and Kangaroos are out feedin...

Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori, known as Bronzino, was one of the leading artists of Florentine Mannerism. Born in Monticelli near Florence, he began his studies with Raffaellino...

The leaf shows Palazzo Farnese at Piazza Farnese in Rome. The church of Santa Brigida can be seen on the far right. To the left, at the end of the road (Via dei Farnesi) is the chu...

According to James Dennistoun, this small portrait on panel was in the collection of Giuseppe Crosti, an artist in Città di Castello who seems to have acquired it in Urbino. Dennis...

Carlo Dolci, who trained with Jacopo Vignali, is generally considered the most important painter in 17th-century Florence. He primarily produced religious paintings, portraits and ...

Within Rubens’ enormous output as a painter, which covered the principal pictorial genres (all of which he handled with equal skill), religious painting occupies a prominent positi...