A dog performs on its back legs in front of a man who lies on the ground. A horse stands to the right. ...

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This is a copy of a signed work by Salvator Rosa of about 1645 in the Pitti Palace in Florence. It shows an episode from the story of the Stoic philosopher Diogenes, who wanted to be free of all earthly attachments. On seeing a boy drinking with his hands from a stream he threw away his drinking bowl, his last remaining possession. ...

Giovanni Agostino della Torre was a distinguished doctor & citizen of Bergamo. He had taught at the University of Padua, & the costume he wears is official or academic dress. In 1510 he was elected prior of Bergamo's College of Physicians, an office he held until his death. The texts on the two square pieces of paper below the inkstand are prescriptions. The paper label on the back cover of the book held by Agostino reads ' Galienus', meaning Galen, who was the great medical authority of the ancient world. On one of the pieces of paper in Agostino's right hand is an inscription that refers to Aesculapius, the physician god of the ancient Greeks & Romans. The portrait is signed &

Includes:: a date, which is illegible today but recorded as 1515. The man behind Agostino is Niccolò, who was 33 in 1516 when his father died. It seems that he was added to what was originally conceived only as a portrait of Agostino, perhaps on the occasion of his father's death.

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In the centre are shown the Virgin & Child enthroned. In the lower row, from left to right are Saints Bernardino, Anthony of Padua, Peter Martyr & John the Baptist. In the upper row are Saints Jerome, Catherine, the Pieta, Saint Sebastian & a female ...

The Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant & placed it in the temple of the idol Dagon in Ashdod, but the Lord caused the idol to be smashed & its worshippers to be plague-stricken. Old Testament (I Samuel 5: 1-6). On the left are the Ark of the Covenant & the broken idol of Dagon. This is a copy of Poussin's original of 1630-1 (Paris, Louvre), but with differences in the background. These differences may reflect an earlier idea for the background in Poussin's picture. ...

The Pont de la Tournelle is in the middle distance, & towards the right is the apse of the cathedral of Notre-Dame. The tower in front of the Pont de la Tournelle is the remains of the Pont de Constantine, before the Pont Sully was built in its place. Le ...

The scene may depict the upper part of the Gorges de Chauderon, above Montreux in Switzerl&. This identification is supported by an old label on the back of the canvas. Courbet collaborated with numerous pupils, especially in his later years, & he oft ...

In the New Testament, all the gospel accounts (e.g. Matthew 3: 1-12) describe Saint John the Baptist preaching in the Jordan valley to large crowds from Jerusalem & the surrounding countryside. However, the Flemish-style landscape setting here is more r ...

Stevens specialised in paintings of fashionably dressed young women. This picture, with its modest scale & intimate subject, is typical of his work. The artist painted this subject on at least five occasions. One version was exhibited in 1866 but this o ...