
🌷Model - @infanta__alina 🌷Photo - @zhdanova.mila _

🌷Model - @infanta__alina 🌷Photo - @zhdanova.mila _

Isabel Clara Eugenia (1566—1633), King Philip II’s mostbeloved daughter, depicted here in royal fine robes with fashionable coiffure, holding a miniature of her elderly...

Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano was born in 1503 in Monticelli, a small town near Florence. From the outset of his career he was known as Bronzino, a nickname whose origins...
500 years ago Italian Renaissance artists changed the course of art ✍️ It was also then that drawing achieved full recognition as an art form in its own right. The...

Gillis Mostaert the Elder (1528—1598) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman active in Antwerp in the second half of the 16th century. Gillis Mostaert was known in...

The painting was the earliest surviving of Caravaggio's religious canvasses. “Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy” by Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio...
@museoprado 1. Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia, 1598-99. 2. Mary Tudor, Queen of England, 1554. 3. Empress Maria of Austria, 1551. Source: museodelprado.es

In this picture, Eleanor of Toledo, the first wife of Cosimo I de' Medici, portrayed with one of their eight sons. The portrait is a manifesto of flawless elegance by...

This woman’s exquisite attire indicates her likely wealth and importance. Gold disks decorate the edge of her collar while rubies and emeralds adorn her hair. She wears...

The portrait by North Italian painter Giovanni Battista Moroni (1520/4—1579) has long been known as ‘La Dama in Rosso’ – the lady in red. Moroni especially favoured pink...

This image was thought in the 19th century to be a Raphael (1483—1520) self-portrait. However, we know today that this handsome young man was Bindo Altoviti, a wealthy...

Three figures with a red drape in the background: just a few elements, yet capable of orchestrating an utterly realistic theater of contrasts: darkness and light, age...

Few artists inspire the same awe or have so dramatically altered the course of Western painting as Michelangelo Merisi, better known by the name of his home town,...