by Lynn Cullen
Artworks Mentioned in The Creation of Eve
SOFONISBA ANGUISSOLA (c. 1532-1625)
Portrait of the Artist’s Sisters Playing Chess, 1555. Oil on canvas, 72 x 97 cm. Muzeum Narodowe, Poznań, Poland.
Boy Bitten by a Crawfish, c. 1554. Black chalk and charcoal on brown paper, 32.2 x 37.5 cm. Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples.
Self-Portrait (with Emblem), c. 1556. Oil on parchment, 8.3 x 6.4 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Portrait of Amilcare, Minerva, and Asdrubale Anguissola, c. 1557-1558. Oil on canvas, 157 x 122 cm. Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Niva, Denmark.
Self-Portrait at an Easel, c. 1556. Oil on canvas, 66 x 57 cm. Muzeum Zamek, Łańcut, Poland. (Reproduced on page vii.)
Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, after Sofonisba Anguissola, Portrait of Isabel de Valois (Elisabeth of Valois), 1606. Oil on canvas, 119 x 84 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Self-Portrait at the Spinet, 1561. Oil on canvas, 83 x 65 cm. Earl Spencer Collection, Althorp.
Attributed to Alonso Sánchez Coello, but here to Sofonisba Anguissola, Portrait of Don Carlos, c. 1560. Oil on canvas, 109 x 95 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Portrait of Juana of Austria and a Young Girl, 1561. Oil on canvas, 194 x 108.3 cm. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
Portrait of Alessandro Farnese, c. 1561. Oil on canvas, 107 x 79 cm. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
Portrait of Isabel de Valois (Elisabeth of Valois), c. 1565. Oil on canvas, 205 x 123 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
El Greco, attributed here to Sofonisba Anguissola, Lady in a Fur Wrap, 1577- 1580(?). Oil on canvas, 62 x 59 cm. Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums). (Reproduced on page 379.)
HIERONYMUS BOSCH (c. 1453-1516)
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, 1485. Oil on wood, 120 x 150 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1504. Triptych, with shutters; oil on panel, central panel 220 x 195 cm; wings 220 x 97 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519)
Portrait of Mona Lisa (1479-1528), also known as La Gioconda (portrait of the wife of Francesco del Giocondo), 1503-1506. Oil on wood, 77 x 53 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Study of Praying Hands, 1508. Brush and ink heightened with white on blue-tinted paper, 29 x 20 cm. Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564)
Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508-1512. Fresco, 40.23 x 13.4 m. Sistine Chapel, Vatican City.
The Last Judgment, 1531-1541. Fresco, 137 x 122 m. Sistine Chapel, Vatican City.
The Bandini Pietà (The Florentine Pietà), c. 1550. Marble, height 22.6 m. Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence.
David, 1501-1504. Marble, height 5.17 m. Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence.
Brutus, 1540. Marble, height 9.5 m. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.
RAPHAEL (RAFFAELLO SANZIO, 1483-1520)
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione, 1514-1515. Oil on canvas, 82 x 67 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
The School of Athens, 1509-1510. Fresco, 550 x 772 cm. Stanza della Segnatura, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City.
TITIAN (TIZIANO VECELLIO, c. 1488/1490-1576)
Danaë and the Shower of Gold, 1553-1554. Oil on canvas, 129 x 180 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Pope Paul III and His Nephews Alessandro and Ottavio Farnese, 1546. Oil on canvas, 210 x 176 cm. Museo di Capodimonte, Naples.
Venus with Organist and Cupid, 1548. Oil on canvas, 148 x 217 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
