Tree, from the Background of a Picture by an Early Flemish Master, in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence

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...

Wooded Mountain Landscape with Waterfall and Travellers is a magnificent fantasy landscape in the Flemish tradition, painted in the first half of the 17th century by the Antwerp pa...

Bronzino’s portraits are undoubtedly among his most important works. His most significant examples date from the 1540s onwards, but it was in the 1530s that he began to formulate t...

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 ...

This panel of the Virgin and Child is the oldest painting in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. Its attribution to the Master of the Magdalen was made by Evelyn Sandberg-Vavalà and...

Arthur (James) Lewis (1824-1901), husband of Kate Terry, and grandfather of John Gielgud. It appears he was also a painter and a musician, with a connection to J M Whistler. Arthur...