Saint Paul Enthroned

Saint Paul Enthroned is an oil on canvas painting by Domenico Beccafumi, now in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Siena. It is dated to c. 1515 due to its style, before his St Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata and after his trip to Rome, where he had come into contact with Sodoma and Florentine artists of the period - the figure of the saint draws on the prophets in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling whilst those in the background draw on Dürer and Piero di Cosimo.

Portrait of Countess Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini as a Child

Portrait of Countess Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini as a Child is an 1858 oil on canvas portrait by Francesco Hayez, commissioned by the subject's father Alessandro Negroni Prati Morosini. It is now in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan, to which it

Portrait of Matilde Juva Branca

Portrait of Matilde Juva Branca is an 1851 oil on canvas painting by Francesco Hayez, now in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan, to which it was given in 1893 by Carlo Weber

Coronation of the Virgin (Rubens)

Coronation of the Virgin is a 1609-1611 oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens, produced as a proposal for a side-chapel in Antwerp Cathedral but rejected in March 1611 and never realised as a full work, instead being reworked later for the same chapel as

Bacino di San Marco from the Puntana della Dogana

Bacino di San Marco from the Puntana della Dogana is a 1740-1745 oil on canvas painting by Canaletto, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. It forms a pair with The Grand Canal looking towards Punta della Dogana from Campo Sant'Ivo, with both works

Self-Portrait Aged 71

Self-Portrait Aged 71 is an 1862 oil on canvas painting by Francesco Hayez. The Uffizi had been requesting a self-portrait from him since 1858 via Andrea Appiani's daughter-in-law Giuseppina Appiani Strigelli and it finally arrived in 1863. It is still in

Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni

Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni is an 1841 oil on canvas portrait of Alessandro Manzoni by Francesco Hayez, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera. It was commissioned in 1840 by Manzoni's second wife countess Teresa Borri Stampa and his son Stefano. After fifteen

Coronation of the Virgin (Beccafumi)

Coronation of the Virgin is an oil on canvas painting by Domenico Beccafumi, executed c. 1539, now in the Pinacoteca nazionale in Siena

Bellanti Madonna

The Bellanti Madonna is oil on canvas painting by Domenico Beccafumi, executed c. 1515. Long attributed to Girolamo del Pacchia, Vigni reattributed it as a youthful work by Domenico Beccafumi in 1936, an attribution accepted by most other later art

Charity (Reni, New York)

Charity is an oil on canvas painting by Guido Reni, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to which it was donated by Mr and Mrs Charles Wrightsman in 1974

Margaret Leshikar-Denton

Margaret E. "Peggy" Leshikar-Denton is an archaeologist specialising in underwater archaeology, and director of the Cayman Islands National Museum