The 1000++ Artworks created around 1550 and ...

View of the central hall Givanni Battista Zelotti

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Givanni Battista Zelotti - View of the central hall

Frescoes

Susanna and the Elders Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin)

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Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin) - Susanna and the Elders

The Sermon of St. John the Baptist Pieter Bruegel The Elder

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Pieter Bruegel The Elder - The Sermon of St. John the Baptist

Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)

Religious
Saints

Christ Carrying the Cross Pieter Bruegel The Elder

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Pieter Bruegel The Elder - Christ Carrying the Cross

Christianity
Religious

This is the second-largest known painting by Bruegel. It is one of sixteen paintings by him which are listed in the inventory of the wealthy Antwerp collector, Niclaes Jonghelinck, drawn up in 1566. It was Jonghelinck who commissioned the Months from Bruegel and he may also have commissioned this wo...

The Miracle of St Mark Freeing the Slave Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin)

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Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin) - The Miracle of St Mark Freeing the Slave

Oil	Miracles People Saints

The Miracle of St Mark Freeing the Slave is a painting by Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin). Currently housed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, northern Italy. It portrays an episode of the life of St. Mark, patron saint of Venice, taken from Jacopo da Varazze's Golden Legend. The scene shows, in th...

Gallerie dell'Accademia (Venezia, Italy)

The Triumph of Death Pieter Bruegel The Elder

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Pieter Bruegel The Elder - The Triumph of Death

Religious
Birth And Death
Hell

The painting is a panoramic landscape of death: the sky in the distance is blackened by smoke from burning cities and the sea is littered with shipwrecks. Armies of skeletons advance on the hapless living, who either flee in terror or try vainly to fight back. Skeletons kill people in a variety of w...

Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain)

The Tower of Babel Pieter Bruegel The Elder

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Pieter Bruegel The Elder - The Tower of Babel

Buildings

The Tower of Babel is a oil paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. They depict the construction of the Tower of Babel, which according to the Book of Genesis in the Bible was a tower built by a unified, mono-lingual humanity as a mark of their achievement. Bruegel's depiction of the architecture of ...

Haymaking Pieter Bruegel The Elder

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Cottages
Mountains

Children's Games Pieter Bruegel The Elder

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Pieter Bruegel The Elder - Children-s Games

Children

Stag Hunt of Elector Friedrich III the Wise Lucas Cranach The Elder

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Lucas Cranach The Elder - Stag Hunt of Elector Friedrich III the Wise

Kunsthistorischess Museum (Wien, Austria)

Animals
Boats
Hunting
Famous People

Mount Sinai El Greco (Doménikos Theotokopoulos)

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El Greco (Doménikos Theotokopoulos) - Mount Sinai

Historical Museum of Crete (Iraklion, Greece)

Mountains

The Adoration of the Kings Jacopo Bassano The Elder

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Jacopo Bassano The Elder - The Adoration of the Kings

National Galleries of Scotland (United Kingdom)

Summer 1 Giuseppe Arcimboldo

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Oil

Summer

In 1562 Arcimboldo left his country and joined the Emperor's court, where he was liked and treated well and received with great kindness, and the Emperor gave him a good salary worthy of his merits and also showed his affection in many other ways. And so our Arcimboldo lived a very fulfilling and ho...