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This large painting of the Madonna and Child was in the center of an altarpiece devoted to Saint John the Baptist, which also featured The Baptism of Christ and The Birth, Naming, and Circumcision of Saint John the Baptist (see Reconstruction ). The altarpiece’s original location is not known, though it was probably featured in a church dedicated to the saint in what is today the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, close to Giovanni Baronzio’s home in Rimini.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los

During the Trojan War, the priest Laocoön angered the Greek gods, who sent snakes to kill him and his two sons. The legend became popular after a monumental, ancient marble sculpture of Laocoön and his sons was unearthed in Rome in 1506.
RR. los Serenísmos Señores Infantes de España, Duques de Montpensier, Seville, 1866

Gentile da Fabriano’s patrons were princes, the church, and various city governments as well as the customary merchant clients. His art has a cosmopolitan flavor, in which brilliant color, textural richness, and ornamental pattern are combined.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los

A pair of portraits of Emilia di Spilimbergo and her younger sister Irene was begun in about 1558, most likely in anticipation of their prospective marriages. The initial reason may have been to present two highly eligible, aristocratic young women to potential husbands, or the portraits may have been intended as permanent mementos for the sisters’ family after they were married.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los

Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los

In 1876, Renoir began to paint anecdotal depictions of women and children, subjects in which he excelled. A Girl with a Watering Can , typical of these works, displays a mature impressionist style attuned to the specific requirements of figure painting.
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los

family, such as the two portraits of his wife (Emma in the Purple Dress, 1919, Los

In European art, images of children blowing soap bubbles often suggest how frivolous and short our time on earth is. Life, like fragile bubbles, is fleeting.
no. 59, repro. 1990 Masterpiece in Focus: Soap Bubbles by Jean Siméon Chardin, Los

The firm’s records, now held by the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and available

Irene di Spilimbergo was about 20 years old when this painting was begun. Along with a pendant portrait of her older sister, Emilia, the two paintings were probably initially commissioned in anticipation of the prospective marriages of the two sitters.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los