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Jan 1, 1500
Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait at 28 (1500)
Durer inscribed the painting as follows:"Thus I, Albrecht Durer from Nuremburg, painted myself with undying colors at the age of 28 years" (Sayre 260). -
Jan 1, 1526
Lucas Cranach the elder. "Martin luther" (1483–1546)
"A remarkable aspect of this painting is Luther's sideways glance, which suggests a peronality capable of concentrating one more than one thing at one" (Sayre 263). -
Jan 1, 1530
Baccio Bandinelli, Self Portrait, (c 1530)
"This self portrait by the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli testifies to the transformation in the concept of the artist" ("Baccio Bandinelli"). -
Jan 1, 1532
Antonio da Correggio: "Jupiter and Io" (1532).
"The painting was created for the pleasure chamber of Federico Gonzaga in the Palazzo Ducale, Mantua" (Sayre 320). -
Jan 1, 1540
Hans Holbein the Younger."Henry VIII in wedding dress" (1540)
"Henry is in the clothes that he wore when he married the 25-year-old Anne of Cleves in 1540" (Sayre 273). -
Jan 1, 1550
Head of an Oba; Edo, Court of Benin. (ca.1550)
"Such heads were usually commissioned upon the death of an oba by his successor, so that the dceased leader might continue to influence his community" (Sayre 287). -
Anthony Van Dyck "Equestrian Portrait of Charles I." (1635).
"Charles's posture, his left hand on his hip, and his right extended outward where it is supported by a cane, adopts the positions of the arms in court dance" (Sayre 348). -
Diego Velázquez, "Las Meninas (the Maids of Honor)." (ca. 1656)
"No other Velazquez painting is as tall as Las Meninas, which suggests that the back of the canvas in the foregound, in fact is Las Meninas itself" (Sayre 349). -
Hyacinthe Rigaud "Portrait of Louis XIV" (1701)
"Musee de Louvre, Paris. In his ermine cornation robes, Louis both literally and figuratively looks down his nose at the viewer" (Sayre 343). -
François Boucher "Madame de Pompadour" (1756).
"Boucher's playful imagery, evident here in the elaborate frills decorating Madame's dress" (Sayre 369). -
Parkinson, Sydney "Portait of a Maori" (1769)
"Parkinson's drawings provide some of the earliest archeological records of Polynesian life" (Sayre 377). -
Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, " Marie-Antoinette en chemise" (1783)
This is a picture of Marie-Antoinette wearing a chemise, which means dress. -
Jacques-Louis David, "Queen Marie-Antoinette on the way to the guillotine" (1793)
"Ink drawing" (Sayre 381). -
Chris Ofili, "The Holy Virgin Mary." (1996)
"While on display in Brooklyn, the painting was smeared with white paint by an angry 72-year-old spectator" (Sayre 511). -
Janine Antoni, "Touch" (2002)
"A short segment of Touch" (Sayre 517).
