Portrait of a Courtesan information

Portrait of a Courtesan or Portrait of a Woman is a c. 1520 oil on canvas painting by Palma Vecchio, now in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan. Probably...

A courtesan is a prostitute with a courtly, wealthy, or upper-class clientele. Historically, the term referred to a courtier, a person who attended the...

1581 – Rome, 1618) was an Italian courtesan and friend of the painter Caravaggio, who used her as a model in several of his compositions. Melandroni was...

it is seen either as a portrait of a courtesan, perhaps Zaffetta, or as a painting celebrating the marriage of its first owner (who according to some...

The following is a list of paintings by the Italian artist Caravaggio, listed chronologically. Spike, John T. Caravaggio. New York : Abbeville Press,...

as a courtesan and sits weeping on the floor, her jewels scattered around her. "It seemed not a religious painting at all ... a girl sitting on a low...

is a list of nobtable Italian Renaissance courtesans. In Italian Renaissance society existed the category of a cortigiana onesta (Honest Courtesan), who...

The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (painted around the same time as the Calling) and The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602). More than a decade earlier...

neglected through ignorance and lack of connoisseurship. Missing works with the highest estimated market values Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael Nativity with...

Boy with a Basket of Fruit is an oil on canvas painting generally ascribed to Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, created c. 1593...