#16th-century Italian art

[kecobe]

Portrait of a Young Man (Portrait of a Gentleman in His Study) Lorenzo Lotto (Italian; ca. 1480–1556) ca. late 1520s Oil on canvas Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, Venice, Italy

[twirld]

The Penitent Magdalene (detail, 1598) Lodovico Cardi

[nachomori-3]

I couldn't resist. More Ear, the hypothetical child of @canisalbus 's oc's Machete and Vasco. Sopping wet thing <3

[klassizismus]

Allegorical Figure of Faith, Paolo Veronese (16th Century)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist by Andrea Solario (1507-09)

[lionofchaeronea]

Venice, Queen of the Adriatic, Crowning the Lion of St. Mark, Domenico Tintoretto, ca. 1595-9

[tragediambulante]

Mars Gravidus, Bartolomeo Ammannati, 1559

[flowerytale]

Bartolomeo Veneto, Saint Catherine Crowned (detail)

[from-a-spiders-web]

Cupid Making His Bow (detail), c. 1534 Parmigianino

[random-brushstrokes]

Giuseppe Arcimboldo - The Four Seasons in one Head (ca. 1590)

[oldpaintings]

Earth, 1566 by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian, 1526/7--1593)

[art-allegory]

Allegory of Avarice

Artist: Jacopo Ligozzi (Italian, 1547–1627)

Date: 1590

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: The National Gallery, Washington, DC, United States

DESCRIPTION

In 1590 Ligozzi created a series of elaborate, allegorical drawings of the Seven Deadly Sins (six still exist). This painting, which is a fragment, depicts the central figures of the allegory of Avarice, the drawing for which is in the National Gallery, Washington. As described in emblem books, Avarice is shown as a pale woman holding a bag of money. The threatening skeleton suggests that the artist was inspired as well by other representations of the vice in either literature (perhaps Dante) or the visual arts.

[frostedmagnolias]

Mirror from Venice

c. 1575-1600

Victoria and Albert Museum

[vieformidable]

A thing of utter beauty, elegance, and complex design.

In 1516, Leonardo Da Vinci created a spiral staircase found in Chambord Castle, located in the Loire Valley, France.

[disease]

“THE VIRGIN AS MATER DOLOROSA” “(OUR LADY OF SORROWS)” attrib. PIETRO TORRIGIANI | c. 1507-10 [terracotta w/ oil paint | 43.7 × 37.5 × 25 cm.]

[papillon-de-mai]

Caravaggio — Bacchus. circa 1596. detail