17th century
Artworks 11 to 20 of 73:
Susanna and the Elders
by Jusepe de Ribera, circa 1615
- Medium
- Oil
- Dimensions
- 70 9/32 x 54 1/8 in (179 x 138 cm)
- Location
- San Diego Museum of Art
The Sense of Touch
by Jusepe de Ribera, circa 1615–1616
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45-5/8 x 34-3/4 in (115.9 x 88.3 cm)
- Credits
- The Norton Simon Foundation
- Location
- Norton Simon Museum
Head of a Man
by Jusepe de Ribera, circa 1620
- Medium
- Red chalk on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 24.5 cm (12 x 9 5/8 in)
- Credits
- Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
- Location
- National Gallery of Art
The Drunken Silenius
by Jusepe de Ribera, circa 1626
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 10-5/8 x 14 in.
- Credits
- Gift of David Hilton in honor of Professor James Harper. © Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art — University of Oregon
- Location
- Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
St. Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgment
by Vicente Carducho, circa 1626–1632
- Medium
- Black chalk with brown wash, heightened with white gouache, squared in black chalk
- Dimensions
- 31.8 × 21.6 cm (12 1/2 × 8 1/2 in)
- Notes
With a long beard and curling locks, a slightly disheveled Saint Jerome listens open-mouthed in astonishment as an angel overhead sounds its trumpet. Vicente Carducho drew Jerome interrupted in the act of writing, with his faithful friend and attribute the lion by his side.
Artists often showed Jerome writing, undoubtedly a common activity for the learned saint who translated the Bible into Latin. Jerome commonly appeared nearly nude, giving artists the opportunity to display his gaunt, ascetic figure. Carducho suggested the saint's lean, muscular body with brown wash and white gouache, using while radiating strokes of black chalk to describe the drapery, which nearly merges with the rocks. The artist reworked the saint's right leg several times, positioning it first forward and then further back until it rested underneath his left knee. The black chalk squaring on this drawing implies that Carducho intended this drawing as a preparatory study for a large painting, although scholars have not identified such a work.
- Location
- J. Paul Getty Museum
The Birth of the Virgin
by Francisco de Zurbarán, circa 1627
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55-1/2 x 42-3/4 in (141 x 108.6 cm)
- Credits
- The Norton Simon Foundation
- Location
- Norton Simon Museum
Still Life with Sweets and Pottery
by Juan van der Hamen y León, 1627
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 84.5 x 112.7 cm (33 1/4 x 44 3/8 in)
- Credits
- Samuel H. Kress Collection.
- Location
- National Gallery of Art
Philip IV, King of Spain
by Diego Velázquez, circa 1628–1631
Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb
by Francisco de Zurbarán, 1630–1634
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 80 5/8 × 44 5/8 in (204.79 × 113.35 cm)
- Credits
- Milwaukee Art Museum, Purchase M1958.70. Photo by John R. Glembin
- Notes
This somber, haunting image of the ascetic Saint Francis typifies the work of one of Spain’s most important Golden Age painters. As is characteristic, Zurbarán depicted the saint alone, in a dark, featureless space, and lit his humble, homespun monk’s robe with dramatic, raking light that also catches on the upturned skull he holds as well as his left foot, which seems to stride into the viewer’s space. Saint Francis was of particular significance to Spain’s monastic communities, which were deeply impacted by the Counter-Reformation. This work was commissioned for Don Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, who was a high-ranking nobleman, close advisor of King Philip IV, and ultimately Prime Minister of Spain (1621–1643).
- Location
- Milwaukee Art Museum
A Greek Sage
by Jusepe de Ribera, circa 1630
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50.8 x 36.5 in
- Credits
- University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1961.013.010
- Location
- University of Arizona Museum of Art