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Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, ca. 15067
Andrea Solario (Milan, ca. 1465Milan 1524)
Oil on canvas; 22 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (57.2 x 47 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 (32.100.81)
Spray of Blackberry, ca. 15061508
Leonardo da Vinci (Florentine, 14521519)
Red chalk on paper; 6 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (18.8 x 16.5 cm)
Royal Collection
© 2003 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Portrait of a Gentleman with a Rosary, ca. 151518
Lorenzo Lotto (Venice, ca. 1480Loreto, 1556)
Oil on panel; 30 7/8 x 24 3/8 in. (78.5 x 62 cm)
Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivå, Denmark
The Magdelane, ca. 152025
Bernardino Luini (Dumenza, near Luino, ca. 1480/85Milan, 1532)
Oil on panel; 23 1/8 x 18 7/8 in. (58.8 x 47.8 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection
The Concert, ca. 152830
Callisto Piazza (Loci, ca. 1500Lodi, 1561/62)
Oil on panel; 35 5/8 x 35 5/8 in. (90.5 x 90.5 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, John G. Johnson Collection
Shepherd with a Flute, ca. 1540 (?)
Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo (Brescia, active by 1506Venice, 1548)
Oil on canvas; 38 1/4 x 30 3/4 in. (97 x 78 cm)
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Head of St. Jerome
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on faded blue (now beige) paper; 12 1/4 x 9 in. (31.2 x 23 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins, Paris
Portrait, Perhaps of Count Fortunato Martinengo Cesaresco, ca. 1542
Moretto da Brescia (Brescia, ca. 1498Brescia, 1554)
Oil on canvas; 44 7/8 x 37 1/8 in. (114 x 94.4 cm)
National Gallery, London
The Vegetable Gardener (L'Ortolano), 1580s
Giuseppe Arcimboldi (Probably Milan, ?1527Milan, 1593)
Oil on panel; 14 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. (35.8 x 24.2 cm)
Museo Civico "Ala Ponzone," Cremona
Two Children Teasing a Cat, ca. 158890
Annibale Carracci (Bologna, 1560Rome, 1609)
Oil on canvas; 26 x 35 in. (66 x 88.9 cm)
Purchase, Gwynne Andrews Fund, and Bequests of Coillis P. Huntington and Ogden Mills, by exchange, 1994 (1994.142)
The Cardsharps, ca. 1595
Caravaggio (Milan or Caravaggio, 1571Porto Ercole, 1610)
Oil on canvas; 36 x 50 1/2 in. (91.5 x 128.2 cm)
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Supper at Emmaus, 1601
Oil on canvas; 55 1/2 x 77 1/4 in. (141 x 196.2 cm)
Crystal Fruit Stand with Peaches, Quinces, and Jasmine Flowers, 1607
Fede Galizia (Milan, 1578Milan, 1630)
Oil on panel; 12 1/4 x 16 5/8 in. (31.2 x 42.2 cm)
Private collection, on loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Kitchen Still Life: Game, Chickens on a Cutting Board, Urn, Basket of Biscuits, and Casserole, mid-1650s
Evaristo Baschenis (Bergamo, 1617Bergamo, 1677)
Oil on canvas; 28 3/4 x 38 1/4 in. (73 x 97 cm)
Private collection, Bergamo
Women Working on Pillow Lace (The Sewing School), 1720s
Giacomo Ceruti (Milan, 1698Milan, 1767)
Oil on canvas; 59 x 78 3/4 in. (150 x 200 cm)
Private collection, Brescia
Portrait of a Knight of the Constantinian Order, ca. 1740
Giuseppe Ghislandi, called Fra' Galgario (Bergamo, 1655Bergamo, 1743)
Oil on canvas; 43 x 34 1/4 in. (109 x 87 cm)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan