Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Boulevard des Capucines 1873–1874 Oil on canvas, 80.33 x 60.33 cm Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City See also: • Boulevard des Capucines (Paris)
Boulevard des Capucines (1873-1874)
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La Tamise à Westminster (c.1871)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Tamise à Westminster (The Thames at Westminster) c.1871 Oil on canvas, 47 x 73 cm National Gallery, London Monet arrived in London in September 1870, fleeing from the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, and stayed until May…
Jardin à Sainte-Adresse (1867)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jardin à Sainte-Adresse (Garden at Sainte-Adresse) 1867 Oil on canvas, 98.1 x 129.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monet spent the summer of 1867 with his family at Sainte-Adresse, a seaside resort near Le Havre. It was…
Il Ratto di Proserpina (1621-1622)
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Il Ratto di Proserpina (The Rape of Proserpina) 1621–1622 Marble, 255 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The work portrays the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, god of the underworld. Narrated by both Claudian and Ovid, the myth tells…
1621
Rulers: • Felipe IV, King of Spain (1621-1665) • Felipe IV, King of Portugal (1621-1640) • Gregorius XV (Alessandro Ludovisi), Pope (1621-1623) • James I, King of England and Ireland (1603-1625) • James VI, King of Scotland (1567-1625) Births: • La Fontaine, Jean de (1621-1695) • Rihel, Frederick (1621-1681)…
Anima dannata (1619)
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Anima dannata (Damned soul) 1619 Marble, 38 cm Palazzo di Spagna, Roma
Palazzi (Roma)
• Palazzo Colonna • Palazzo di Spagna • Palazzo Monaldeschi • Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi See also: • Palaces
Palazzo di Spagna (Roma)
Palazzo di Spagna (Palazzo Monaldeschi) Spanish Embassy to the Holy See and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta Built: 1647 Address: Piazza di Spagna, 57 VA, 00187 Roma RM, Italia Website: https://www.embassypages.com/spain-embassy-holysee-holysee Collection: • Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680): Anima dannata (1619) See also:…
1647
Rulers: • Charles I, King of England (1625-1649) • Charles I, King of Ireland (1625-1649) • Charles I, King of Scotland (1625-1649) • Felipe IV, King of Spain (1621-1665) • Francesco I d’Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio (1629-1658) Architecture: • Palazzo di Spagna (Roma)…
Enea, Anchise e Ascanio (1619)
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Enea, Anchise e Ascanio (Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius) 1619 Marble, h. 220 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This is the first large sculpture group produced by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Scipione Borghese, for which a payment receipt dating…