Italy, circa 1620 Regnier (Niccolo Regnieri) was born in France but left for Italy as a young man. In Rome he attached himself to the...

Italy, 1794-1799 The theories of Neoclassicism, formulated in the works of the German scholar and philosopher Johann Joachim Winckelmann,...

Pygmalion is a legendary figure of Cyprus in Greek mythology who was a king and a sculptor. Though Pygmalion is the Greek version of the...

Flanders, 1653 Pliny's Natural History is the source for the subject of this painting from the workshop of the Flemish painter Jacob...

Flanders, circa 1638 Learned in the traditions and legends of the ordinary people, Jordaens here depicted the festival of the Three Magi...

The Union of Earth and Water is a Baroquepainting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, showing Cybele as the personification of earth...

Flanders, between 1638 and 1640 Bacchanalia was a favourite theme in Rubens's work, although Bacchus himself was rarely the subject of...

The Gospel According to John (xix: 4-5) relates how Christ, after being scourged and beaten, is led forth to be shown to the people and...

In Leo von Klenze's project this room in the New Hermitage was allotted to the display of Dutch and Flemish painting. Today it contains...

Danaë is a painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, first painted in 1636, but later extensively reworked by Rembrandt, probably in the...

The Return of the Prodigal Son is an oil painting by Rembrandt. It is among the Dutch master's final works, likely completed within two...

'Poppy Field in Giverny' was created in 1890 by Claude Monet in Impressionism style.

After spending six years in rural Éragny, Pissarro returned to Paris, where he painted several series of the grands boulevards. Surveying...

Place du Théâtre-Français - spring ) is a painting by the French impressionist painterCamille Pissarro from 1898, oil on canvas. It is...