Tuesday, February 7, 2017

European Portrait-painting from the 16th century

Bartholomäus Bruyn (Germany)
Portrait of a woman and her daughter
ca. 1535-45
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

At the round Earth's imagined corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go,
All whom the flood did, and fire shall o'erthrow,
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance, hath slain, and you whose eyes
Shall behold God, and never taste death's woe.

 from Sonnet VII by John Donne (1572-1631)

Bartholomäus Bruyn (Germany)
Portrait of a man
ca. 1538-39
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Bartholomäus Bruyn (Germany)
Portrait of a woman
ca. 1538-39
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Martin Schaffner (Germany)
Portrait of a man
ca. 1515
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Barthel Beham (Germany)
Portrait of a man
1529
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Hans Maler (Germany)
Portrait of Anne of Hungary and Bohemia
ca. 1519
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Lucas Cranach the Younger (Germany)
Portrait of a woman
1539
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Corneille de Lyon (Netherlands)
Portrait of Robert de la Marck, 4th Duke of Bouillon
ca. 1550
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Domenico Tintoretto (Italy)
Portrait of a man
ca. 1586-89
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Lorenzo Lotto (Italy)
Family portrait
1523-24
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Federico Barocci (Italy)
Portrait of a man
ca. 1575-85
oil on panel, transferred to canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

workshop of Alessandro Allori (Italy)
Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo
ca. 1571-76
oil on panel
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Martino Rota (Croatia)
Portrait of Emperor Rudolf II
ca. 1576-80
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Pierre Dumonstier (France)
Portrait of a youth
ca. 1570-75
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg