Magdalen

MagdalenA slightly reduced copy of the original in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which is generally given to Annibale but for which an attribution to Albani has recently been suggested (A. Brogi, 'Il laboratorio dell'Ideale: note sulla prima attivit di Francesco Albani tra Bologna e Roma', Paragone, XLI, 1990, p. 54).

Armida transports the sleeping Rinaldo in her flying chariot to the island of Fortuna in the middle of the ocean

and their works are not always easy to separate

some miles south of Antwerp

Recent cleaning has revealed a very finely-painted genre scene by an artist who travelled widely - he lost all his drawings in the Great Fire of London in 1666 - but whose paintings are extremely rare

it is unclear whether it was made in the Netherlands or in England

were putting together their collection

"Horatius Cocles defending the Bridge" was painted under Poussin's influence early during Le Brun's stay in Rome

in the 1950s

though the identification of one of the figures as the goddess Ceres is doubtful

and in the centre the ruins of the Sanctuary of Hercules Victor

with its honey and aquamarine tones contrasted with a deep blue in the dress of the nymphs'

the Dulwich canvas depicts an allegory of the human struggle between Reason and Concupiscence