A unique, small plate painting. Mary with Child and St. Catherine are depicted in half portraits on a golden background. Both women make eye conta...

Madonna holds the baby Jesus in both hands in an elegant turn. His right leg is over her arm. John approaches as a boy from the left, points his f...

The Head of the Mourning Mary in a Blue Cloak derives from a composition by Carlo Dolci (1616-1686) in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, painted c. ...

Venus looks at the viewer with a mischievous look and cheekily tilted head. Although she is naked, her blonde hair is tied back in a net and her h...

A naked boy, dressed only in a green cloak, sits on a stone block with his right arm resting on the hilt of a large sword. The sole of the right f...

Hans Rottenhammer was the main representative of cabinet painting on copper in the period around 1600. His compositions show a strong influence of...

MonsterAccording to Greek mythology, to punish the arrogance of Cassiopeia, her daughter Andromeda was chained to a rock by the sea on the instruc...

The Rotterdam painter François Verwilt was a follower of Cornelis von Poelenburch (1594/95–1667), whose paintings of nude nymphs in landscapes wer...

Joseph Heintz, originally from Basel, was the court painter of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague from 1590.A small medallion depicts St. Catherine of Al...

This painting was made by the Italian painter Simone Cantarini, born in Pesaro but belonging, by style, to the so-called Bolognese school. He was ...

Eliezer was sent by Abraham to find a godly wife for his son Jacob. He was encamped at a well near the city of Harran when the women of the city c...

The mesmerizing realm of Greek mythology is one of the greatest sources for artists to exhibit their technical brilliance and unique interpretatio...

After being condemned by Pontius Pilate, Jesus was mocked by the Roman soldiers in the Praetorium as the King of the Jews (Mark 15:16-20; Matthew ...

Laurentius, Archdeacon of Rome, is placed on the glowing grate because he refused to hand over the church treasure to Emperor Valerian. A putto fl...

An image of a martyr before his execution, with a blue mantle over his back, his arms crossed on his bare chest, his mouth slightly open, and his ...

The painting is a partial copy of the painting by Peter Paul Rubens in the KunsthistorischesMuseum, Vienna; from around 1616. Saint Ambrose preven...

Jesus defended a woman caught in adultery who was condemned to be stoned, saying: "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a s...

In the dark, stately interior with fluted columns is a three-quarter length portrait of a man in dark blue robes and hat, holding in his right han...

The brooding saint at a table with a reading desk and the characteristic composition of attributes of an index finger resting on the skull, a writ...

Jacob Andries Beschey (1710-1786), The Penitent St. JeromeAntwerp painter Jacob Andries Beschey is known for his paintings inspired by Peter Paul ...

In the landscape, John the Baptist and Jesus in childhood lovingly play with the Lamb of God. John shows the lamb as his playmate and Jesus stroke...

Jan Boeckhorst came from Munster, Germany, but from 1626 he lived in Antwerp, where he was admitted to the Guild of St. Luke in 1633/1634. He coll...

Antonio Molinari was the son of the painter Giovanni Molinari and learned from the well-known representative of tenebrism - Antonio Zanchi (1631-1...

In a mountainous landscape under a blue-gray sky, in the shadow of a tall sarcophagus, Pan plays the flute with an ivy wreath around his head. On ...

Johann Heiss is considered a very advanced artistic figure who, together with other masters, shaped Augsburg art in the second half of the 17th ce...

After her death, Mary is taken up to heaven with the help of angels. The apostles surrounding the sarcophagus witness the event and are shown in v...

The focus is on a saint standing above stone steps in front of a gray-blue sky, in a long black belted robe with a dark brown cloak. The index fin...

The artist illustrates the presentation of Jesus in the temple and the purification of Mary, forty days after giving birth, according to the Jewis...

Painter from the 18th centuryMadonna and Little Jesus oil on canvas, 80 x 54 cm, original frame

Franz Joseph Spiegler (5 April 1691 – 15 April 1757) – atributted, Madonna with Child and Angels ...[more]

The Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph are depicted as the caring parents of the baby Jesus, who sleeps soundly in his mother's arms. Saint John the Bap...

The depiction of the Holy Family focuses on the figure of the Madonna, whose face, shown in profile, has a balanced and almost joyous expression. ...

Two wooden panels, painted in oil, scenes of cupid and and Venus. 45 x 53 cm Oil on wood

The women are engaged in housework in the kitchen; an elderly woman by the fireplace, a young woman in the foreground on the left carrying a baske...

The picture is a very good copy of the painting of the carters in the Dresden picture gallery (94.5 × 137 cm, gallery no. 408). The viewer witness...

On a dark background is a half-length portrait of a man with highly realistic treatments, and in typical seventeenth-century clothes. The peculiar...

Against a dark background stands the half-length figure of a smiling man who sparsely wears a large red suit over a white shirt. Tenderly, he hugs...

1) The man eats bread and cheese 2) Singing woman with glasses Jakob Franz Zipper was born in Feldkirch, Austria, and moved to Italy, where he m...

The study shows the head of a woman looking up, where the light falls on her. Her eyes are wet, her mouth is slightly open, and her face expresses...

The portrait shows a noble gentleman in a casual, silk dressing gown (morning robe), called a robe de chambre in French. He looks at the viewer in...

Portrait of Emperor Charles VI. (1685–1740) as Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece ...[more]

Old handwritten label (partly indistinctly) on the reverse on the canvas: Portrait of Sir John Lack / brother to Sir (...) Lack (...) / This Portr...

The man in the portrait looks at the viewer over his right shoulder. The look is intelligent, alert and focused. Underneath the high-collared gree...

Frans de Hamilton belonged to the De Hamilton family of artists from Scotland who mainly painted animals and still lifes. Frans de Hamilton worked...

A hare and a wild duck are beautifully depicted in this pair of still lifes. The two animals are painted realistically and hanging from a tree. In...

Maxmilián Pfeiler became a member of the Prague Lesser Town painting guild in 1683 and is known to have lived in Rome from 1694 to 1721. In Rome h...

On a large gray stone slab in front of a dark background, stands a large vase filled with a beautiful floral arrangement. It consists of yellow-re...

Gaspard Dughet was the brother-in-law and pupil of Nicolas Poussin. Like Poussin, he worked in Rome. He is one of the most important classical lan...

This splendid painting, the work of a French painter of the Francois Boucher school(Paris, 1703 - 1770), depicts a riot of the canons of the Rococ...

Decker became a member of the Guild of Saint Luke in Haarlem in 1643, and in 1646 he became a student of Salomon van Ruysdael.He belonged to the H...

Landscape with Deer HuntingOil on canvas, 45.5 x 97 cm

1) River landscape with a tall church tower2) River landscape with tower ruins1) A river flows through a landscape with mountains rising in the ce...

1) Landscape with a Shepherd Family by a Well 2) Landscape with Shepherds by the River Zuccarelli is one of the most important landscape painters ...

Evening summer landscape with deer resting at the edge of the forest. Oil on wood 25 x 30 cm

Philipp Jacob Loutherbourg, who came from Strasbourg, trained under Carle Vanloo in Paris and was admitted to the Academy in 1767. In 1771 he sett...

Under a wooded low slope, a path with two visible tracks leads towards the center of the picture to a distant village. Old trees with many branche...

English painter of the 19th century, Landscape with Peasants and Rocks in the BackgroundOil on canvas, 56 x 74 cm

Three trees stand on a hill next to a dirt road. Bright sunlight shines on them and a wide summer landscape stretches out in the background. The f...

View of the Garden House of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the Park on the Ilm, in Weimar. 37 x 49 cm, oil on canvas and cardboard

Hubertus with AnimalsOil on canvas60,5 x 90 cm