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El Greco's The Burial of Count Orgaz, canvas, 1586.

Location: S. Tome, Toledo

 

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Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Theresa

Mixed media, 1645-52.

Location: Cornaro Chapel,

S. Maria della Vittoria.

Patron: Cardinal Federico Cornaro.

 

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Bernini,

Baldachin (Baldacchino), gilded bronze, 1624-33.

Location: Crossing of St. Peter's, Rome

Patron: Pope Urban VIII

 

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Bernini's Cathedra Petri (St. Peter's Throne),

marble, gilded bronze, stucco, stained glass, 1657-66.

Location: Apse, St. Peter's, Rome.

Patron: Pope Alexander VII

 

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Bernini's Colonnade of Piazza San Pietro,

beg. 1656.

Patron: Alexander VII 

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      Caravaggio's Calling of St. Matthew,

Oil on canvas, c. 1599-1600.

Location: Contarelli Chapel, S. Luigi dei Francesi, Rome.

 

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Caravaggio's Conversion of St. Paul, 

Oil on canvas, c. 1601.

Location: Cerasi chapel, S. Maria del Popolo, Rome

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Caravaggio's Crucifixion of St. Peter

            Oil on canvas, c. 1601.

Location: Cerasi chapel, S. Maria del Popolo, Rome

 

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Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith slaying Holofernes,

canvas, c. 1620 

 

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Sofonisba Anguissola's 

Portrait of the Artist's 3 sisters with a servant.

No patron.

            Hung in artist's house. 1555

 

 

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Bramante's Tempietto,

S. Pietro in Montorio, Rome, 1502-11.

Patron: King and Queen of Spain.

 

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Bramante's Plan for St. Peter's,

Rome, 1506.

Patron: Pope Julius II.

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Della Porta's facade,

c. 1575-84, Gesu, Rome. 

Comm. by the Jesuits;

financed by Card. Alessandro Farnese. 

 

 

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Vignola (plan, beg. 1568) Gesu, Rome. 

Comm. by the Jesuits; financed by Card. Alessandro Farnese

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Bramante's  Plan & Facade (as shown on medal),

St. Peter's, Vatican, Rome, 1506.

Patron: Pope Julius II.

 

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Veronese's Last Supper, re-titled Feast in the House of Levi,

canvas, 1573.

Location: Refectory,(Dominican) Monastery

S. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

Unacceptable Presentation of Iconography

[on grounds of secularism]


 

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Tintoretto's Last Supper,

canvas, 1592-94.

Location: Choir, S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.

Comm. by the Prior.

 

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Velasquez's Surrender of the town of Breda,

oil on canvas, 1634-35 

Location: Hall of the Realms,

Buen Retiro Palace. Patron: Philip IV 

 

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Rubens

      King Henry IV of France

Receiving the Portrait of Marie de Medici

oil on canvas, 1621-25.

From a cycle of 24 scenes of the life

of Marie de Medici, Queen of France.

Location: Luxembourg Palace.

Patron: Marie de Medici (i.e. female patron)

 

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Van Dyck

Portrait of Charles I of England

in Hunting Dress,

oil on canvas, 1635.

Patron: King Charles I of England.

 

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Rigaud,

      Portrait of King Louis XIV of France,

oil on canvas, 1701.

Patron: Louis XIV.  Palace of Versailles

 

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  Velasquez      

Las Meninas (Maids of Honor) 1656

(Originally called The Household of Philip IV of Spain)        

Location:  Philip IV's private room

in the Alcazar Palace in 1666.

Patron: King Philip IV of Spain 

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Durer      

Four Saints, so-called Four Apostles,

panel, c. 1526.

Patron: Artist.

Location: his gift to

Nuremburg Town Hall 

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Holbein,

      Madonna of Burgomaster Meyer, panel, 1526.

Patron: Burgomaster Meyer.

Location: In chapel of his castle in Basel

 

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Bruegel's Harvesters (August) 

Oil on panel, 1565.

Patron: Nicolaes Jonghelinck.

Location: his house in Antwerp

 

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Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow (December).

Oil on panel, 1565.

Patron: Nicolaes Jonghelinck.

Location: his house in Antwerp

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Hals' Laughing Cavalier,

oil on canvas, 1624  

Location: Middle-Class Homes Patron: the sitters

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Hals' Regentesses of the Old Men's Almshouse,

oil on canvas, c. 1664

Location: Boardroom

 

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Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp,

canvas, 1632.

Patrons: Surgeons' Guild for their hall.

Location: Boardroom

 

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Rembrandt's Night Watch

(Militia Company of Captain Cocq),

oil on canvas, 1642.

Patrons: Members of the company for their hall.

Location: Boardroom

 

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Rembrant's

Return of the Prodigal Son,

oil on canvas, c. 1669

 

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Cellini, Perseus and Medusa,

bronze, 1545-54. 

Location, loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. 

Patron: Duke Cosimo I de' Medici

 

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Giovanni da Bologna, Rape of the Sabine Women,

marble, 1583.

Location: Loggia de' Lanzi, Florence.

Patron: Duke Francesco de' Medici

1 block

 

 

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Bernini, David, marble, 1623.

Location: Villa Borghese, Rome.

Patron: Cardinal Scipione Borghese

 

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Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece

Open: Temptation of St. Anthony (illus. Chambers, p. 433)

Oil on panel, 1515.

Location: Main altar, monastery church,

Hospital of St. Anthony Isenheim.

Patron: preceptor 

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Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece

Half Open: Annunciation, Virgin and Child with Angels, Ressurection, Oil on panel, 1515.

Location: Main altar, monastery church, Hospital of St. Anthony Isenheim

Patron: preceptor 


 

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Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece

Closed: Crucifixion, Lamentation, and

Saints Anthony

and Sebastian, Oil on panel, 1515.

Location: Main altar, monastery church,

Hospital of St. Anthony Isenheim.

Patron: preceptor  

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Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights Secular Triptych.

Oil on panel, c.1505-10

Patron: Secular member of aristocracy.

Location: (In 1517 hanging in palace of Hendrik III of Nassau, Brussels)

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Durer's Adam and Eve,

engraving, 1504

No patron, many locations

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Durer's Melencolia I,

engraving, 1514

No patron Many locations 

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Durer's Self Portrait,

panel, 1498

No patron Many locations

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      Ruisdael

            ***View of Haarlem, oil on canvas, c. 1670

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Townscape:

      Vermeer

            ***View of Delft, oil on canvas, c. 1662

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Churchscape (Church Interior):

      Saenredam

            ***Church of St. Bavo, oil on panel, 1660

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Hals

            ***Malle Babbe, oil on canvas, c. 1630-33

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      de Hooch

            ***Linen Cupboard, oil on canvas, 1663

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      Judith Leyster

            ***The Proposition, oil on canvas, 1631

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Vermeer

            ***Kitchen Maid, oil on canvas, c. 1658

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