Subject
Shield
Shield is a subject in art. The gallery holds 69 works in this subject in art, including works by Titian, Paolo Veronese and Jean Léon Gérôme.
A shield is a piece of personal armour held in the hand, which may or may not be strapped to the wrist or forearm. Shields are used to intercept specific attacks, whether from close-ranged weaponry like spears or long ranged projectiles such as arrows.
Key artists
Works
Pygmalion and Galatea
Venus and Minerva
The Defense of Cadiz Against the English
Perseus and Andromeda
Saint Michael and the Dragon
The Resurrection
The Serbian Concubine (Un Envoi de Serbie)
The Storming of Rheinfelden
The Victory of Fleurus
The Liberation of Brisach
The recovery of the island of San Cristobal by Don Frederic of Toledo
Touch
Ecce Homo
Saint Sebastian
The judgement of Paris
Religion saved by Spain
Allegory of the Birth of Marie-Zéphyrine of France, daughter of Louis of France
Women Gladiators
Christ, the Example for Martyrs
The Taking of Christ
Mars Resting
Carlos y Ubaldo en las islas Afortunadas
Entrada triunfal de don Juan José de Austria (?)
Armida ante Godofredo de Bouillon
The Birth of Minerva
Rest during the Flight to Egypt
El jardín de Armida
Seville Surrenders to the king, Saint Ferdinand
Armida and Rinaldo
Battle of Gascona and battery in a castle
El rey don Rodrigo arengando a los jefes de su ejército antes de dar la batalla del Guadalete
Reinaldo huye de las islas Afortunadas
Rinaldo in love with Armida
Landing and combat
The Martyrdom of Saint Mennas
The Rape of Helen by Juan de la Corte
Armida en la batalla frente a los sarracenos
Battle of the Nudes
Lion Hunt
Anne of Austria and Marie-Thérèse of Austria, queens of France
Statue of Albert I in a niche
Proezas de Reinaldo frente a los egipcios
Alfonso VI
El mago descubre a Carlos y Ubaldo el paradero de Reinaldo (La búsqueda de Reinaldo)
Leovigildo
Vulcan hands Thetis the shield for Achilles
Henriette-Anne of England, Duchess of Orleans, known as Madame (1644-1670)
capture the citadel
Queen Zenobia before the Emperor Aurelian
Wamba renouncing the Crown
Death of Pyrrhus
John III Sobieski, King of Poland (1624-1696) with one of his children
Minerva and Arachne
A Battle Scene
Fernando II rey de León
Soldier. Hermitage of San Baudelio. Casillas de Berlanga (Soria)
Agila I
Sisenando
France comforted by Time
Portrait of Francesco Maria II della Rovere
Wapenbord met het wapen van de familie Snoeck (Amsterdam)
Man in Armour
Shield with Two Arms Framed by a Garland (birth tray, back)
Dedication to Don Pietro Medici from "Bizzarie di varie Figure"
Nun’s Badge with the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception
A Cupid with a Coat of Arms (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
A Shield Bearing a Mask Supported by Two Genii
Bookplate: Independence Hall
H Beard Print Collection