Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx is an oil on wood painting by the Flemish Northern Renaissance artist Joachim Patinir. Dating to c. 1515–1524...

Joachim Patinir, Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx, c. 1515–1524 Tintoretto, Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet, c. 1518 Raphael, The Pearl, c. 1518–1520...

pool and the lake behind it echoes the lake in the earlier scene. The center image depicts the expansive "garden" landscape, which gives the triptych...

the walls of the house. Although he initially decorated the rooms of the house with more inspiring images, in time he painted over them all with the intensely...

especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures...

relationship with the painter. After Velázquez's death, Philip wrote "I am crushed" in the margin of a memorandum on the choice of his successor. During the 1640s...

version, the most striking point was the fact that until the restoration of the Prado's version, no landscape background was visible. That landscape was fully...

1827. The painting shows a panorama of an army of skeletons wreaking havoc across a blackened, desolate landscape. Fires burn in the distance, and the sea...

crescent, suggesting both Charon as a moon and the mythological Charon's boat crossing the river Styx. This symbol is not widely used, but it coincidentally...

them to the Spanish state. The effects of time on the murals, coupled with the inevitable damage caused by the delicate operation of mounting the crumbling...

the center of the painting, lying on a bed adorned with a golden headboard and covered with rich bedsheets, with the sheets themselves decorated with...

of the Almudena in 1993. For many centuries, the Church of San Isidro served as a de facto cathedral, but while this church was associated with the patron...

The world landscape, a translation of the German Weltlandschaft, is a type of composition in Western painting showing an imaginary panoramic landscape...

the seven deadly sins are depicted: wrath at the bottom, then (proceeding clockwise) envy, greed, gluttony, sloth, extravagance (later replaced with lust)...

history and landscape subjects. He was Flemish, from the area of modern Wallonia, but worked in Antwerp, then the centre of the art market in the Low Countries...

catalog it is identified with the number 39. Dated and signed in 1632, the Agnus Dei Plandiura, also known as the Ram with its legs tied, is an oil painting...

idealised feminine beauty, with the goddesses Aphrodite, Athena and Hera on one side and Paris accompanied by Hermes on the other. The 1636 version has a depiction...

shows two women with maniacal smiles seemingly laughing at a simple-minded man who appears to be masturbating at the right hand of the picture. Despite...

black background. The primary figure stands at the centre of the composition dominating the foreground; the man stands slightly hunched with a pensive expression...

the angel forces the two out of the Garden of Eden. Adam speaks with the angel; Eve, in a melancholic pose, looks ahead to the right. The central panel features...

associated with the Enlightenment, the criticisms are far-ranging and acidic. The images expose the predominance of superstition, religious fanaticism, the Inquisition...

Prince Baltasar Carlos until the prince's death in 1646 De Morra's job was to keep the prince entertained with humor. Following the death of Prince Carlos,...

and Goliath, also known as David with the Head of Goliath or David Victorious over Goliath, is an oil painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio...

earlier bodegones, such as the Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary. In the foreground is the contest. The goddess Athena, disguised...

works on the Passion of Jesus. The passion was the time period before the death of Jesus Christ, which includes numerous events and interactions with Jesus...

figures in the night, apparently intoxicated and singing with distorted faces. Figures from diverse social strata also figure in the painting. In the foreground...

apparently produced at the height of the war when materials were unobtainable, so that Goya had to destroy the plate of an earlier landscape print to make this...

Landscape with the Finding of Moses is an oil painting on canvas of 1639–40 by Claude Lorrain, one of a series commissioned from the artist by Philip IV...

burial mound as she looks outward at the viewer with a sorrowful expression. La Leocadia was one of the final of the Black Paintings to be completed, a...

Landscape with Saint Paula of Rome Embarking at Ostia or The Embarkation of Saint Paula is an oil-on-canvas painting by Claude Lorrain. It was painted...