Art du XVIème siècle/16th century Art

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (detail; c. 1520–24), Andrea Solario. Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna. © KHM-Museumsverband.  Frankfurt- It is a turning point in the history of art: Renaissance Painting. What began in Italy developed into something completely new in northern Europe - with the painters Hans Holbein the Elder. Ä. (around 1464–1524) and Hans Burgkmair (1473–1531) as pioneers of this unique art. Its center was the free imperial and trading city of... [Lire la suite]

Lavinia Fontana, Portrait of Lucia Bonasoni Garzoni, c. 1590, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Funds from Anonymous in memory of Montana Walker Strauss, and Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2022.38.1.  WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has announced its acquisition of it's first painting by early modern Italian woman artist Lavinia Fontana. This highly detailed and exquisite portrait depicts the 16th-century musician Lucia Bonasoni Garzoni (b. 1561–at least 1610) by the most... [Lire la suite]

Venetian, Christ Carrying the Cross, c. 1515, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, © KHM-Museumsverband The exhibition is devoted to the groundbreaking innovations in Venetian Renaissance painting, with lasting effects that continued to resonate far into European modernism. It presents 15 masterpieces from the Munich collection and around 70 international loans, focusing on portraits and landscapes from the first half of the sixteenth century as the most eloquent examples of the characteristics and... [Lire la suite]

Lot 21. Domenikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco (Crete 1541-1614 Toledo), The Entombment of Christ, oil on panel, 11 x 7 5/8 in. (28 x 19.4 cm.), with inventory number '18.' (lower right). Price realised GBP 6,290,000 (Estimate GBP 6,000,000 – GBP 8,000,000). ©️ Christie's Image Ltd 2023 Provenance: (Possibly) Miguel Lasso de la Vega y Madariaga (1783-1863), 10th Marqués de las Torres, and thence by descent to,Miguel Lasso de la Vega y Quintanilla (1830-1900), 12th Marqués de las... [Lire la suite]

Baccio Bandinelli, Four Male Heads, c. 1534. Pen and brown ink on laid paper. Sheet: 35.56 x 26.99 cm (14 x 10 5/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington Patrons' Permanent Fund 2022.159.1 WASHINGTON, DC.- A favorite of the powerful Medici family, Baccio Bandinelli (1493–1560) was, next to Michelangelo, one of the most important sculptors in 16th-century Florence. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Four Male Heads (c. 1534), a drawing that conveys in two dimensions and on a small scale the presence and power... [Lire la suite]

The Lovers (after the Housebook Master) (detail), c. 1490. Wenzel von Olmütz (Moravian, active 1481–97). Engraving; sheet: 16.9 x 11.3 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2010.262. CLEVELAND - Before the advent of landscape as an independent genre in European art (a development usually placed in the 1600s), depictions of the natural world appeared on the borders of manuscripts and as the backdrop for portraits, devotional works, and biblical narratives. In these contexts, nature held symbolic and... [Lire la suite]

St. John’s Head on a Platter, So-Called “Johannesschüssel”, Tyrol, ca 1500. Oak, original polychromy. Height 21 cm, diameter 40 cm. Courtesy Kunstkammer Georg Laue Provenance: Hamburg, Professor Manfred Brauneck Collection, 1990 Published in: G. Laue: Memento Mori, Munich 2002, p. 170, Cat. No. 42; M. Brauneck: Religiöse Volkskunst. Votivgaben, Andachtsbilder, Hinterglas, Rosenkranz, Amulette, Cologne 1979, Fig. 17  

 Italian dish, c.1535-45 © The Holburne Museum BATH .- Some 500 years before apps such as Hinge, Bumble and Matched became familiar ways in which to meet a future partner, portraiture was an essential part of the matrimonial process for the nobility of Northern and Southern Europe. During the Renaissance, artists such as Hans Holbein the Younger, Nicholas Hilliard, Antonio Pisanello, Alesso Baldovinetti and Giovanni Battista Moroni were highly sought after, as their portraits of wealthy and powerful patrons... [Lire la suite]

Lot 10. Workshop of Pietro di Cristoforo Vanucci, il Perugino (Città delle Pieve circa 1448–1523 Fontignano), Saint Sebastian, bears an inscription in gold: PETRVS · PERVSINVS · PINXIT, oil on panel, 51.2 x 37.3 cm, unframed. Estimate €300,000-400,000. © 2023 Dorotheum GmbH & Co KG Provenance (according to a label on the reverse):Possibly collection of Louis-Francois-Armand de Vignerot du Plessis (1696–1788), 3rd Duc de Richelieu and Marshal of France, Château de Richelieu, Indre-et-Loire;and possibly by... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3014. Lucas Cranach the Elder and Studio (Kronach 1472–1553 Weimar), Winged altarpiece with the Annunciation, Saints Catherine and Barbara (inside), as well as Christ as Man of Sorrows and Mary as Mother of Sorrow (outside). Circa 1515. Oil on panel. Central panel: 122.5 × 86 cm. Lateral wings: 120.5 × 37.5 cm each. Sold for CHF 948 300 (Estimate CHF 800 000 / 1 200 000). © Koller The central panel inscribed above: AVE MARIA GRACIA PLENA DOMINVS TECVM BENEDICTA TV IN MVLIERIBVS: ET... [Lire la suite]