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National Gallery art 1500s In 204 BC the Romans brought the cult of Cybele, the eastern goddess of victory, from Pessina, Asia Minor, to Rome. Mantegna has combined the accounts of Ovid, Livy & Appian. Cybele is represented by her sacred stone - 'she fell to earth as a meteor' - ... Click for comprehensive WIKI information £20.000 |
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National Gallery art Close-ups This work is a portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini & his wife Giovanna Cenami, but is not intended as a record of their wedding. His wife is not pregnant, as is often thought, but holding up her full-skirted dress in the contemporary fashion. Arnolfini was a member of a merchant family from Lucca living in Bruges. The couple are shown in a well-appointed ... Click for comprehensive WIKI information £20.000 |
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National Gallery art 1500s This picture & the other ' Massacre of the Innocents' in the Collection by the same artist are probably fragments from a single work. Details of the work are taken from Mantegna's engravings of ' The Entombment' & ' Bacchanal with a Wine-press'. Some details recur (with variations) in Mocetto's engravings ' The Killing of the Sow' & ' The Altar of Sacrifice' ... Click for comprehensive WIKI information £20.000 |
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National Gallery art 1400s This painting by a Cologne artist, together with ' The Mass of Saint Hubert' was one of the inside shutters of an altarpiece from the Benedictine Abbey at Werden, near Cologne. The outside shutters, depicting various saints, are also in the National Galler ... Click for comprehensive WIKI information £20.000 |
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National Gallery art 1600s The painting is an accurate view of the nave & north aisle of the Oude Kerk taken from near the south entrance to the church. At the top of the central window is the coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam: three white crosses of Saint Andrew on black ground flanked by red bands. The congregation sits around the pulpit which is attached to one of the columns ... Click for comprehensive WIKI information £20.000 |
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National Gallery art 1600s Saint Januarius, Bishop of Benevento & patron of Naples, was beheaded near Pozzuoli about AD 305. The executioner stands behind the saint & an angel descends with a palm of martyrdom. The painting is presumably the modello for the large altarpiece in S ... Click for comprehensive WIKI information £20.000 |
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National Gallery art 1600s For the subject of this fresco (now transferred to canvas mounted on board) see Ovid, ' Metamorphoses' (10). Cyparissus, beloved by Apollo, accidentally killed a favourite stag; he was so distressed that he begged to be allowed to mourn for ever, & was t ... Click for comprehensive WIKI information £20.000 |
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National Gallery art 1600s Catherine-Therese de Matignon Thorigny (1662 - 1699) married Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Colbert (1651 - 1690), Marquis de Seignelay in 1679. He was the eldest son of the great Colbert & immensely wealthy. The marriage produced five sons. The marquise was wido ... Click for comprehensive WIKI information £20.000 |
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National Gallery art 1400s Side panels of the Virgin's life: Left: her birth - Saint Joachim's offering rejected; an Angel appears to him; the Meeting at the Golden Gate; the Birth of the Virgin. Right: miracles - Helsinus saved from shipwreck; he preaches celebration of the Immacu ... Click for comprehensive WIKI information £20.000 |
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National Gallery art 1400s On the left are Saint Dominic & Saint Catherine. On the right kneels an unnamed Dominican beatus, probably the Blessed Costanzo da Fabriano (died 1481 or 1482). The standing saint is Augustine. After death, the Blessed Constanzo's head was transferred to ... Click for comprehensive WIKI information £20.000 |
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National Gallery art Art Prints by Artist The Three Kings have sought out the Child Jesus in the stable where he was born. They bear gifts (gold, frankincense & myrrh) & have journeyed from the East. New Testament (Matthew 2: 10-12). The stable at Bethlehem is attached to the ruins of a great ... Click for comprehensive WIKI information £20.000 |
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National Gallery Monet: The Water Lily Pond Art Prints & Gifts This poster print features Claude-Oscar Monet's The Water-Lily Pond. In 1883 Monet moved from the north-west of Paris to Giverny where he lived until his death. Adjacent to his property was a small pond which he acquired in 1893, where he created a water garden with an arched bridge in the Japanese style. The simple design of this painting with the close-up ... Click for comprehensive WIKI information £15.000 |
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