Few images of saints show women as gorgeously attired as Francisco de Zurbarán’s. His Saint Lucy portrays the young martyr as a contemporary woman of Seville.
Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: 10, repro. 1981 Mann, Donna.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 204, repro. 1981 Mann, Donna.
Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
Lynn Lilienthal, Reva and David Logan, Ellen Lowe, Betsy McManus, Thomas and Diann Mann
Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
Edwin Landseer was only 18 when he painted this powerful work showing a rescue in the Great Saint Bernard Pass in the Alps. Two dogs have found an unconscious man partially buried by snow.
Mann, Caleb Scholefield. The Works of Sir E. Landseer. 4 vols.
Leaning on a ledge, left hand on his hip, Bartolomé Sureda meets us with a doffed hat and relaxed gaze. He was Goya’s friend, which is why his pose looks informal and he seems approachable.
Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
