If the cross were light in weight & too flimsy to lean on, as a couple of reeds lashed together would be, you would expect sometimes to see him...
That one is certainly very different & would not be at all surprised to find the attribution to Caravaggio is incorrect. Scouting around, I see...
You would have to have fineness tested to know if my guess about 18K is correct. 14K is not standard for Egypt; 12, 18 & 21 are most common.
This is glass, probably of the type James Tassie called 'enamel': [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The white is opaque to a degree you don't see in...
Seems to be the African equivalent of painters on the beach.
I don't have much more luck with people who are my age or older. :)
Saw this sometimes in junior high & high school, giving an ID bracelet as a sign they were going steady. In my working class town, the bracelets...
The staff/cross that looks like bamboo in the one Caravaggio, the one I was ready to discount as John, is really rather strange & not consistent...
Think we can be sure this one is John: [ATTACH] This one too: [ATTACH] Seeing this as Caravaggio may be wishful thinking, but it is certainly...
I asked because the square box ('cartouche') the mark is in is typical of Egyptian marks. However, the marks themselves don't look right. Maybe...
The ram - is it a billy goat? - ate them.
Looks like a G, doesn't it?
Suppose an argument can be made that C. always depicted Bacchus in white: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2293936...
The main thing I see with KSW's cab is the very sharp separation of the white & dark layer & the glaring white of the white by comparison with...
Definitely the case, almost a touch of surrealism in places. I'm holding down the minority opinion here, but see absolutely nothing to indicate...
That whole corner of the painting gives me difficulty. Until you enlarged it, thought that was a leaning tree back there. Now it looks more like...
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It is definitely a full grown ewe. Maybe. I would bet Youth with Ram is correct:...
This one hits many of the conventions for depicting John the Baptist: pilgrim's staff with crosspiece lashed on to make a cross; a little banner...
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