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Carel Willink (Amsterdam, 1900 - 1983), Portrait of Sylvia Quiel, 1975
Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Iacopo called il Rosso Fiorentino; Firenze 1495 - Fountainebleau 1540); Assunzione della Vergine (Assumption of the Virgin), 1517; fresco, 385 x 337 cm; Chiostrino dei Voti, Firenze
Georges Rouault (Paris, 1871 - 1958), Young Jesus with the Doctor, 1893; watercolour and gouache on paper, 52 x 64 cm
Max Ernst (Brühl 1891 - Paris 1976); The fashinating Cypress, 1939; oil on canvas
Franz von Lenbach (Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, 1836 - Munich 1904); Portrait of Marion Lenbach, 1901; oil on canvas, Hermitage Museum
italianartsociety: Renato Guttuso died on this day in Rome in 1987. He was 75. Born near Palermo, Guttuso started painting working for a family friend decorating carts with images of the Norman conquest of Sicily. He studied under Futurist Pippo Rizzo
Matthias Grünewald (Würzburg, ca. 1480 – Halle, 1528); Christ carrying the Cross, c. 1523-24; oil on wood, 152 x 193 cm; Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri called il Domenichino; Bologna 1581 - Napoli 1641); Diana e le sue Ninfe (Diana and her Nymphs), 1617; oil on canvas, 320 x 225 cm; Roma, Galleria Borghese
Alfred Henry Maurer (New York City 1868 - 1932); Carrousel, 1901; oil on canvas; Brooklyn Museum
Diego Velazquez (Seville 1599 - Madrid 1660); Triumph of Bacchus, 1628; oil on canvas, 227 x 165 cm; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Chemnitz 1884 - Berlin 1976); Wanderdüne am Haff (Sand dunes in the lagoon), 1947; oil on linen, 114 x 93 cm; Brücke-Museum, Berlin
Telemaco Signorini (Firenze, 1835 - 1901), Mattinata nei pressi dell'Arno (A morning by the Arno), 1868; oil on canvas
Marguerite Gerard (Grasse 1761 - Paris 1837), The bather, N/D, oil on canvas
Andrea del Castagno (Castagno c. 1421 - Firenze 1457); Madonna col Bambino e i Santi (Madonna with Child and Saints), c. 1445; fresco, 212 x 290 cm; Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Nicolay Bogdanov-Belsky (Smolensk 1868 - Berlin 1945); Sunday Reading in Rural Schools, 1895; oil on canvas; The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Max Meldrum (Edinburgh 1875 - Kew, Victoria 1955); A Peasant of Pacé, 1908; oil on canvas
Jan Matejko (Krakow, 1838 - 1893); Rejtan - The Fall of Poland, 1866; oil on canvas, 487 x 282 cm; Warsaw, Royal Castle’s Museum view high resolution: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Rejtan_Upadek_Polski_Matejko.jpg?uselang=it
Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis called il Pordenone; 1484 Pordenone - 1539 Ferrara); Storie della Passione (Stories of the Passion of Christ), 1520-21, fresco; Duomo di Cremona
Jacob van Loo (Sluis, Bruges, 1614 - Paris 1670); Bacchic Scene, 1653; oil on canvas, 55 x 63 cm; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
artistkrieg: Giovanni Fattori
Philip Alexius de László (Budapest, 1869 – London, 1937); Miss Olive Trouton, 1910; oil on board, 70 x 90 cm; private collection
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; Milano 1571 - Porto Ercole 1610) a) The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1598, oil on canvas (135 x 104 cm); Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze b) The Sacrifice of Isaac [uncertain attribution], 1597-99, oil on canvas (173
Emil Nolde (Nolde, near Tondern, 1867 - Seebüll, Schleswig, 1956); The Entombment, 1915; oil on canvas, 117 cm x 86 cm
Jean-Frédéric Schall (Strasbourg 1752 - Paris 1825); Portrait of Christine Boyer, c. 1800; oil on canvas, 54 x 44 cm; Musée Magnin, Dijon
Carlo Saraceni (Venezia, 1579 - 1620), Il Diluvio Universale (The Deluge), c. 1610; oil on canvas, 92 x 117 cm
Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560 - Roma 1609); San Rocco e l'Angelo (St. Roch and the Angel), c. 1587; oil on canvas, 81 cm x 62 cm; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Adolph von Menzel (Breslau 1815 - Berlin 1905); Market in Winter, 1862; gouache and colored chalk on paper, 26 x 32 cm; Stiftung Staadtmuseum, Berlin
Carel Fabritius (Beemster 1622 - Delft 1654); The raising of Lazarus, 1643, oil on canvas; Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (Warsaw
Eugenio De Blaas (also known as Eugene de Blaas, Eugene von Blaas, etc.; Albano Laziale 1843 - Venezia 1931); Pulcinella in convento (Punch Puppet at the convent), n/d; oil on canvas, private collection
Jan Steen (Leiden, 1626 - 1679); The Village School, c. 1670; oil on canvas; National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
Egon Schiele (Tulln an der Danau 1890 - Vienna 1918); Portrait of the painter Karl Zakovsek, 1910; oil, tempera and charcoal on canvas; New York, private collection
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari called Veronese; 1528 Verona - 1588 Venezia); Pietà, 1581; oil on canvas, 111 x 147 cm; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (Paris, 1699 - 1779), The Ray or The kitchen’s interior, 1728; oil on canvas, 146 x 115 cm; Musée du Louvre
Otto Dix (Gera 1891 - Singen 1969); Frau mit Kind (Mother with Child), 1921, oil on canvas
Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima; Conegliano 1459/60 - 1517/18); Il Battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ), 1492; oil on wood, 210 x 350 cm; Chiesa di San Giovanni in Bragora, Venezia
Eugène Delacroix (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798 - Paris 1863); Exercices militaires des Marocains (Moroccan Horsemen’s military Exercises),1832; oil on canvas; Musée Fabre de Montpellier
Paris by Yuri Annenkov (1889 Petropavlovsk - 1974 Paris)
François-Emile Barraud (La Chaux-de-Fonds 1899 - Geneva 1934); Girl at work, 1933; oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm
Pieter Neeffs the Elder (Antwerp, c. 1578 - 1656); Interior of Antwerp’s Cathedral, n/d; oil on panel, 107 x 75 cm
Gustave Caillebotte (Paris 1848 - Gennevilliers 1894); View of Roofs, Paris (1878); oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm
Willem Roelofs (1822 Amsterdam - 1897 Berchem); Landscape in an approaching storm, 1850; oil on canvas, 140 x 90 cm; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Winslow Homer (Boston 1836 - Prout’s Neck, Maine, 1910), Spanish Moss at Tampa (1886)
Georges Lemmen (1865 Schaerbeek - 1916 Bruxelles), Portrait of the artist’s sister (1891)
Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti; Caprese [now Caprese Michelangelo], Arezzo, 1475 - Roma 1564); Tomb of Pope Julius II (lower half) with the Moses, 1513-15 - 1542-45; Church of San Pietro in Vincoli, Roma
Anton Raphael Mengs (Aussig 1728 - Roma 1779); Maria Luisa of Parma, c. 1765; oil on canvas, 110 x 152 cm; Museo del Prado, Madrid
John Michael Wright (London, 1617 - 1694); The family of Sir Robert Vyner, 1673; oil on canvas, 195 x 144 cm; National Portrait Gallery, London
Guido Reni (Bologna, 1575 - 1642); San Giuseppe e Gesù Bambino (St. Joseph with the Infant Jesus), c. 1635; oil on canvas, 101 x 126 cm; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
italianartsociety: Giuseppe De Nittis was born on this day in 1846 in the Puglian city of Barletta. Like other 19th-century artists, De Nittis worked out of doors, emulating the plein-air aesthetic and varied light effects of the French Impressionists
William Hogarth (London, 1697 - 1764); Christ at the Pool of Bethesda, 1736, oil on canvas; St. Bartolomew’s Hospital, London
Winslow Homer (Boston 1836 - Prout’s Neck, Maine, 1910); Shark fishing, 1885, watercolour
Nikolai Ge (Voronezh 1831 - Khutor Ivanovsky 1894); Peter the Great interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof, 1871; oil on canvas
Simon Hollósy (1857, Máramarossziget, now Sighetu Marmaţiei - 1918, Técső, now Tiachiv, Ukraine); Parasztudvar szekérrel, 1912
Frans Floris (Frans de Vriendt called Floris; Antwerp, 1517 - 1570); The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, 1562; oil on wood, 230 x 165 cm; Musée du Louvre, Paris
Théodore Chassériau (Samanà, Dominican Republic, 1819 - Paris 1856); The Tepidarium, 1853; oil on canvas, 258 x 171 cm; Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Johannes Bosboom (The Hague, 1817 - 1891); The Quai de Paris in Rouen, 1849; oil on canvas, 105 x 88 cm; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Giovanni Lanfranco (Terenzo, Parma, 1582 - Roma 1647); Erminia tra i pastori (Erminia among the shepherds), 1633-37; oil on canvas, 196 x 146 cm; Pinacoteca dei Musei Capitolini, Roma
Michael Pacher (c. 1435, Bruneck, Sudtyrol - 1498 Salzburg); The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, c. 1480; oil on panel, 102 x 99 cm; Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Grace Cossington Smith (Neutral Bay 1892 - Roseville 1984); Sea breaking on the Seashore, 1931; oil on board
Carlo Crivelli (Venezia 1430/35 - Ascoli [?] 1495); Presentazione delle chiavi a San Pietro (more precisely: Madonna and Child Enthroned with Presentation of the Keys to St. Peter, with Saints John of Capistrano, Emidius, Francis, Louis of Toulouse, James
Jan Fyt (Antwerp, 1611 - 1661); Cat, Venison and a Basket of Grapes, c. 1660; oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm; Musée du Louvre, Paris
![Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; Milano 1571 - Porto Ercole 1610) a) The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1598, oil on canvas (135 x 104 cm); Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze b) The Sacrifice of Isaac [uncertain attribution], 1597-99, oil on canvas (173](https://64.media.tumblr.com/06ffc302c115826d74d89ed46a89a3dd/tumblr_n0fmmqOpy61qzxzwso1_250.jpg)
![Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti; Caprese [now Caprese Michelangelo], Arezzo, 1475 - Roma 1564); Tomb of Pope Julius II (lower half) with the Moses, 1513-15 - 1542-45; Church of San Pietro in Vincoli, Roma](https://64.media.tumblr.com/23c104b333d75ddd8f6a2597fd5bafe6/tumblr_n1cyhhQgGh1qzxzwso1_250.jpg)
![Carlo Crivelli (Venezia 1430/35 - Ascoli [?] 1495); Presentazione delle chiavi a San Pietro (more precisely: Madonna and Child Enthroned with Presentation of the Keys to St. Peter, with Saints John of Capistrano, Emidius, Francis, Louis of Toulouse, James](https://64.media.tumblr.com/7498f8b23333e14b74f96c998b61eb49/tumblr_n267ha4WkR1qzxzwso1_250.jpg)
