Education of the Infant Bacchus

Giulio Carpioni began his training in Padovanino’s workshop where he became acquainted with the work of Titian. Around 1631 he travelled with his master to Bergamo, gaining a knowl...

Renoir once quipped that had God not created the female breast, he might never have become an artist. Indeed, the full, womanly bosom figures prominently in Renoir's loving portray...

Bernardino Luini was highly appreciated among 19th-century collectors for his compositions and the elegance of his style. Luini was both a painter of frescoes and of easel-format p...

The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist was dated by Thuiller to between 1653 and 1657. Anthony Blunt suggested a later date of around 1660–70,...