The Long Shadow of Italy:Painting in Seventeenth Century Europe

Peter Paul Rubens, after Leonardo Da Vinci, The Battle of Anghiari, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence,1505

Michelangelo Buonarroti, David, Florence,1501 - 04

Michelangelo Buonarroti,, Sistine Chapel,Rome, 1537

Michelangelo Buonarroti,The Dephic Sybil, Sistine Chapel,Rome, 1512

Raphael,St. Catherine of Alexandiria, Florence, 1507

Raphael, Philosophy (The School of Athens), Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican,1512

Titian,The Assumption of the Virgin, Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, 1516-18

Titian,Bacchus and Ariadne, Venice, 1524

Titian, Venus of Urbino, Venice,1535

Mannerism

Correggio,Dome of Parma Cathedral, Parma, 1524

Parmigianino,Madonna with the Long Neck, Rome, 1540

Bronzino,Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, Florence, 1540 - 45

The Seventeenth Century

The Baroque

Annibale Carracci,The Assumption of the Virgin Mary, 1590

Annibale Carracci,The Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome1601

Caravaggio,The Crucifixion of St. Peter, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, 1601

Caravaggio,The Calling of St Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, St Luigi dei, Francesi Rome, 1599

Caravaggio,The Martyrdom of St Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, St Luigi dei, Francesi Rome, 1599

Caravaggio,The Death of the Virgin, 1609

Caravaggio The Incredulity of St. Thomas, 1602

Peter Paul Rubens The Elevation of the Cross, 1610

Peter Paul Rubens,Venus at her Mirror, 1614

Peter Paul Rubens, Castor and Pollux Abducting the Daughters of Leucippus, 1618

Peter Paul Rubens,The Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseilles, 1622

Peter Paul Rubens,The Negotiations at Angoulême, 1622

Peter Paul Rubens, The Feast of Herod, 1635

Peter Paul Rubens, The Apotheosis of James I, London, 1635

Hobbema, The Avenue at Middelharnis, 1648

Rembrandt van Rijn,Andromeda, Chained to the Rocks, 1630

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632

Rembrandt van Rijn,The Three Crosses, State III, 1653

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Blinding of Samson, 1636

Rembrandt van Rijn,Self Portrait, 1659

Nicholas Poussin,Nymph and Satyrs, Rome, 1627

Nicholas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, Rome,1630

Nicholas Poussin, The Dance to the Music of Time, 1630

Nicholas Poussin, The Holy Family on the Stepz,, 1630

Claude Lorrain, The Embarkation of St. Ursula, Rome, 1637

Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Dancing Figures (The Mill), Rome, 1648

Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Aeneas at Delos, Rome, 1672