The Denial of Saint Peter depicts Saint Peter being accused of following Jesus Christ. It is representative of Caravaggio's style near the end of his life through his dramatic use of contrast between light and dark.
This piece by Dutch Renaissance artist Johannes Vermeer depicts an everyday scene in which a young woman prepares for her day, and washes with a pitcher and basin. She looks out the stained glass window at left, while a map of the Dutch Republic…
This painting shows the Jewish heroine Esther appearing before King Ahasuerus, whose prime minister had hatched a plot to execute all the Jews, to plead for her people. According to the Biblical story, Esther fainted in the king’s presence from fear…
A marble statue sculpted during the Hellenistic era, which was orignally done as a copy of a Greek statue. The work was lost for many years but rediscovered, heavily damaged, in a Roman basement in 1907. The piece was aquired by the Metropolitan…
In this portrait, Manuel María is depicted wearing a bright red play costume with his pet cats, finches, and magpie holding the Goya's calling card. The boy was about 3 or 4 years old when it was painted, but after its completion, the boy died at age…
This portrait of Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, the wife of the comte de la Châtre, was painted by French portrait artist Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun in 1789. Bontemps is wearing a simple, classic white muslin dress, popularized…