Woman with a Candle

Woman with a Candle by Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706), date unknown

Portrait of Ecaterina Petrovna Holstein-Beck

Portrait of Ecaterina Petrovna Holstein-Beck, Later Princess Bariatinsky Pietro Rotari, 1762

Beatrice Cenci

Portrait of Beatrice Cenci by Guido Reni, 1599

Bacchus with Nymphs and Cupid

Bacchus with Nymphs and Cupid by Caesar van Everdingen, c. 1660

Portrait of a Two-Year-Old Boy

Portrait of a Two-Year-Old Boy by Caesar van Everdingen, 1664

A Woman Drinking with Two Men

A Woman Drinking with Two Men by Pieter de Hooch c. 1658

David with the Head of Goliath

David with the Head of Goliath by Caravaggio, c. 1601-1602

A Lady Writing

A Lady Writing by Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665-66.

Baroque Art

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Portrait of Suzanna Huygens

Portrait of Suzanna Huygens by Caspar Netscher, 1667-69

The Messenger

The Messenger by Johannes Verkolje, 1674

Portrait of Frances Teresa Stuart

Portrait of Frances Teresa Stuart by Peter Lely, 1662-65

The Concert

The Concert by Gerard Terborch, c. 1675

Portrait of a Young Girl with a Fan

A Young Girl with a Fan by Pietro Rotari, probably painted in the 1750's (I have searched and searched, but I couldn't find the year, so this is a mere guess. Please inform me, if anyone knows the exact year.)

The Cumaen Sibyl

The Cumaen Sibyl by Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri), c. 1620-23

Rembrandt and Bach

Tognina

The first time I saw this fascinating portrait was in the book On Ugliness by Umberto Eco. This is a portrait of a girl from the 1590's, by Lavinia Fontana. Her name is Tognina Gonsalvus or Antonietta Gonzales. She was daughter of Petrus Gonzales, a man whose entire body was covered with thick, soft hair. He married an average woman, but they still got many hairy children. They travelled to several courts of Europe, dressed in fancy clothes, and the rich people loved to see these "curiosities", and the princes ordered portraits of them.
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