18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian School Painting of a Dog on a Red Cushion

Painting with probably biblical Italian school characters End of the 17th beginning of the 18th century unsigned carrying a Carlo Maratta cartouche of in...

Italian painting, oil on canvas, 18th century

18th century framed oil painting on canvas by Holland School is a panoramic landscape with prominent contrasting features, rendered in the Dutch style. The foreground is divided into...

Roman school, 18th century The Sacrifice of Iphigenia Oil on canvas, Measures: 50 x 64.5 cm The canvas depicts The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, a theme reported by numerous sources, including the Greek tragedies Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides and Agamemnon by Aeschylus, as well as in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The myth tells how the Greeks, under the command of Agamemnon, gathered at the city of Aulis, in Boeotia, from which they then set sail for Troy. The persistent calm of the winds, however, prevents the Greek ships...

The work presented here is a devotional painting, especially for its small format, probably intended for a private altar. It represents with a scenographic sense and deep dramatism t...

18th century Italian painting on canvas. Dimensions: 27.75" H x 38.25" W x 3" D.