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Showing posts with label Location: Italy. Show all posts

17 May 2021

Bernardino Mei. Ghismunda, ca. 1655 (Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena).



Oil on canvas: 66.5 x 47.5 cm. From Boccaccio’s Decamerone. Ghismunda, the daughter of Prince Tancredi of Salerno, had a secret affair. Her father had her lover killed and his heart sent to Ghismunda in a golden chalice.

Visit > Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena.
More > Bernardino Mei at Wikipedia.

26 September 2020

Pieter Bruegel the elder. The Blind leading the Blind, ca. 1568 (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples).



Distemper on linen: 86 x 154 cm. Also known as ‘Parable of the Blind’. The museum has a good-quality copy by an unidentified late 16th-century Flemish painter (formerly attributed to Bruegel’s son Pieter Brueghel the younger). Another copy by another unidentified painter is at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels.

Visit > Museo di Capodimonte, Naples.
More > The Blind leading the Blind at Wikipedia.
More > Pieter Bruegel the elder at Wikipedia.
More > The Brussels copy at Google Arts & Culture.
More > Our top-50 favourite paintings.