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The Crowning with Thorns
The Crowning with Thorns is an oil on Canvas painting created by Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known as Caravaggio from 1602 to 1604. After the interrogation at Pilate, Christ is put on a crown of thorns by the soldiers. He is thus ridiculed as the king of the Jews. -
Two youths with grapes
Two youths with grapes is an oil on poplar panel paiting created by Italian painter Battistello Caracciolo from 1605 to 1610. It's located in the Art Gallery of South Australia. I've chosen the painting due to being one of the first made at the start of the Caravaggisti art movement. -
Bernardo del Carpio o Alfonso Bustos de Lara
Bernardo del Carpio o Alfonso Bustos de Lara is an oil on Canvas painting created by a Spanish painter, Francisco de Zurbarán from 1610 to 1640. It's located in Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico city, Mexico. -
Christ on the Mount of Olives (Christ’s Fear of Death)
Christ on the Mount of Olives (Christ’s Fear of Death) is an oil on Canvas painting created by Italian painter Battistello Caracciolo from 1615 to 1617. “And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And
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La vista
La vista is an oil on Canvas painting created by Spanish Valencian Tenebrist painter and printmaker José de Ribera in 1615. This work is part of a series of paintings on the five senses that the diplomat Pietro Cussida commissioned from José de Ribera. -
Saint Paul
Saint Paul is an oil on panel painting created by José de Ribera from 1615 to 1620. This small bust of Saint Paul is evidence of how Ribera adopted Caravaggio’s strong contrasts of light and shadow and his naturalistic use of real-life models. -
The Poet
The Poet is a drawing printed through etching created by Spanish Valencian Tenebrist painter and printmaker José Rivera from 1620 to 1621. -
The Denial of St. Peter
The Denial of St. Peter is an oil on Canvas painting created by Flemish painter, art collector, and art dealer, Gerard Seghers from 1620 to 1625. It's located in North Carolina Museum of Art, purchased with funds from the State of North Carolina. -
Saint Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgment
Saint Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgment is a printed drawing made by etching and engraving created by José de Ribera in 1621. It's part of New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," September 19, 2011–January 8, 2012. -
St. Jerome and the Angel
St. Jerome and the Angel is an oil on Canvas painting created by José de Ribera in 1626. It was produced as a display for a side chapel next to the high altar of the church of Santissima Trinità delle Monache, which also housed Ribera's Earthly Trinity. -
Drunken Silenus
Drunken Silenus is an oil on Canvas painting created by the Spanish painter José de Ribera in 1626. Silenus, who is reclining on a cloth and extending a wine cup to the figure behind him, is the main figure. Pan is seen to the right, encircling Silenus with vines, a turtle, and a shell. A snake, a symbol of wisdom, is located at the bottom right. -
The Prayer of St. Bonaventura about the Selection of the New Pope
The Prayer of St. Bonaventura about the Selection of the New Pope is an oil on Canvas created by Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán from 1628 to 1629. St. Bonaventura, who lived in the 13th century, may be counted among the great saints of the Franciscan Order. -
Pulling of the Pretzel
Pulling of the Pretzel is an oil on Canvas painting created by a Dutch Golden Age painter from Utrecht, one of the Utrecht Caravaggisti whose style was influenced by Caravaggio, Jan van Bijlert from 1630 to 1640. -
Euclid
Euclid is an oil on Canvas painting created by José de Ribera from 1630 to 1635. The presence of mathematical diagrams in the illegible book reveals the figure's identity as Euclid, a prominent mathematician from antiquity, best known for his treatise on geometry, the Elements. -
Apollo and Marsyas
Apollo and Marsyas is an oil on Canvas painting created by José Ribera in 1637. The scene describes the moment in which the god Apollo skins the satyr Marsyas after losing the music contest to which he had challenged the god. -
Blessed John Houghton
Blessed John Houghton is an oil on Board painting created by Francisco de Zurbarán from 1637 to 1639. This painting by Zurbarán is characterised by the precision of the drawing, the chiaroscuro which surpassed the Tenebrism and a wonderful color application. -
Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew
Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew is an oil on Canvas painting created by Spanish painter José de Ribera in 1644. The painting illustrates martyrdom and physical torment. The almost naked apostle Bartholomew looks at us helplessly, while a sadistic drunken executioner delightedly flays him. -
Santa Catalina de Alejandria
Santa Catalina de Alejandria is an oil on Canvas painting created by Spanish Baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo from 1645 to 1650. Queen Catherine of the Cypriots was such a strong believer in Christianity that the Roman emperor ordered her to be beheaded. She ascended into heaven as “the bride of Christ,” and for this reason, she has long been worshiped as the ideal maiden. -
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria is an oil on Canvas painting created by Spanish painter José de Ribera in 1648. Generally described as a "female saint," she has been identified as Saint Catherine of Alexandria. -
Still Life with Glass, Fruit, and Jar
Still Life with Glass, Fruit, and Jar is an oil on Canvas painting created by Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán
in 1650. Purchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society by Robert F. Phifer Bequest.