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(Italiano) Maddalena con il vaso degli unguenti
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Self-Portrait
Inv. Pc 66 The inscription to the lower part states that the man is Guido Reni and specifies that it is a self portrait. In spite of an obvious relation to the Emilian painter’s style, it is not certain either…
St. Francis Adoring the Crucifix
Inv. Pc 148 Oil on canvas. The work is datable about 1583-84. Ludovico Carracci Saint Francis of Assisi One of the most popular figures of religious devotion from the Middle Ages, St. Francis founded the Franciscan Order. His iconography is…
The Baptism of the Christ
Inv. Pc 35 The picture belongs to the early work of the Venetian artist. Here, Domenico Tintoretto revisits the theme of the Baptism, painted in 1579-81 by his father Jacopo for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice. The…
Diana and Endymion
Inv. Pc 149 The artist painted this work for his friend Bonaventura Argenti, musician of the Cappella Pontificia, about 1660. The delicate subject is taken from the Dialogues of the Gods, by Lucianus: the shepherd Endymion obtains eternal youth from…
The Trinity
Inv. Pc 102 This painting that dates from about 1400, was probably the central panel of a polyptych. This iconography of the the Trinity – the Father supporting Christ’s cross and, between the two, the Holy Spirit disguised as a…
Ecce Homo
Inv. Pc 220 Oil on wood. This is a refined copy, probably executed towards the end of XVI century, of a picture by the Emilian painter Antonio Allegri, called Correggio (1494-1534), who painted it about 1525-28. Correggio Ecce homo It…
Madonna and Child
Inv. Pc 195 This small devotional work had previously been attributed, without a real basis, to Carlo Cignani. The iconography of the Virgo Lactans (Madonna feeding the Child) goes back to early Christian art: particularly widespread during the Middle Ages…