WEB Gallery of FINE Art

25/10/2025

Artist: Bernardino Luini (1482-1532)
Artwork: The Virgin with the Child and Saint John
About: 1523 - 1525
Medium and Support: Oil on canvas. 86 x 60 cm
Location: Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, Spain
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25/10/2025

William Williams (American, 1727-1791, active in America 1746-1776)
Artwork: Deborah Hall
About: 1766
Medium and Support: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 71 3/8 x 46 3/8 in. (181.3 x 117.8 cm).
Location: Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 42.45
(Photo: Brooklyn Museum,, 42.45_SL3.jpg)
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Deborah Hall
William Williams

AMERICAN ART

These two full-length portraits were painted in two colonial American cities— Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Lima, Peru. Despite that distance, they share a formality of pose and an emphasis on fine costume, grand setting, and symbolic details that reveal their common source in European portrait models. The enclosed gardens, for example, suggest the chaste purity of the sitters.

The two portraitists practiced under dramatically different circumstances. The Lima painter operated within a guild, modeled on Hispanic royal tradition. The guild specialized in religious art for the Catholic churches in what was then the viceregal capital city of Peru. The selftaught Philadelphia painter served a more modest market (in this case the Quaker community), whose wealth and social ambitions paled in comparison to their South American counterparts.

19/10/2025

Goya’s long-time patrons the Duke and Duchess of Osuna commissioned him to paint two scenes from the life of Saint Francis for a chapel dedicated to the saint in the Cathedral of Valencia. This scene comes from an 18th Century account of the saint’s life written by Cardinal Alvaro Cienfuego who states that the saint realized that this sinner couldn’t be saved and “detached its [the crucifix’s] nailed right arm, and placing its hand in that profusely bleeding lacerated wound in its chest, withdrew a fist filled with blood, and hurled it with indignation at the frowning, denigrated face, saying ‘Since you scorn this blood, which was shed for your glory, let it serve for your eternal unhappiness.’ Then that pitiful man, with an awful, blasphemous shout directed against Jesus Christ, gave up his soul, convulsed by a horrid moan, and it was turned over to the infamous ministers of fire and fright.”
Source: Narrative Paintings

Artwork: St. Francis Borgia Helping a Dying Impenitent
Artist: GOYA (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828)
Nationality: Spanish 🇪🇸
Known for: Painting, drawing, printmaking
Notable work: La maja desnuda, The Third of May 1808, Black Paintings, Saturn Devouring His Son
Created: ca. 1788
Movement style: Romanticism
Medium and techniques: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 290 mm × 380 mm
Location: Valencia Cathedral, Spain 🇪🇸

Valencia Cathedral, at greater length the Metropolitan Cathedral–Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady of Valencia, also known as St Mary's Cathedral, is a Catholic church in Valencia, Spain. 🇪🇸

04/10/2025

The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:13–23) and in New Testament apocrypha. Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus since King Herod would seek the child to kill him. The episode is frequently shown in art, as the final episode of the Nativity of Jesus in art, and was a common component in cycles of the Life of the Virgin as well as the Life of Christ. Within the narrative tradition, iconic representation of the "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" developed after the 14th century.
Wikipedia

Artwork: The The Flight I to Egypt 🇪🇬
Artist: Jan de Beer, formerly known as the Master of the Milan Adoration (c. 1475 – 1528) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and glass designer active in Antwerp at the beginning of the 16th century.
Nationality: Flemish
Created: cca. between 1519 and 1527
Movement style: Renaissance (Northern Renaissance)
Medium and techniques: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 335 mm x 237 mm
Location: Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland 🇮🇪

The National Gallery of Ireland (Irish: Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann) houses the national collection of Irish and European art. It is located in the centre of Dublin with one entrance on Merrion Square, beside Leinster House, and another on Clare Street. It was founded in 1854 and opened its doors ten years later. The gallery has an extensive, representative collection of Irish paintings and is also notable for its Italian Baroque and Dutch masters painting. The current director is Caroline Campbell.

Jan de Beer, formerly known as the Master of the Milan Adoration (c. 1475 – 1528) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and glass designer active in Antwerp at the beginning of the 16th century. He is considered one of the most important members of the loose group of painters active in and around Antwerp in the early 16th century referred to as the Antwerp Mannerists. Highly respected in his time, he operated a large workshop with an important output of religious compositions.

04/10/2025

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