Month: October 2013

Battaglia dei centauri (1490-1492)

Michelangelo (1475-1564) Battaglia dei centauri (Battle of the Centaurs) 1490–1492 Marble bas-relief, 84.5 x 88 cm Casa Buonarroti, Firenze           The earliest mention of the Battle of the Centaurs is to be found in a letter written in…

Madonna della Scala (c.1490)

Michelangelo (1475-1564) Madonna della Scala (Madonna of the Stairs) c.1490 Marble bas-relief, 56.7 x 40.1 cm Casa Buonarroti, Firenze The Madonna della scala, or Madonna of the Stairs, of which no mention was made during Michelangelo’s lifetime, was cited for the…

Pietà (1498-1499)

Michelangelo (1475-1564) Pietà 1498–1499 Carrara marble, 174 x 195 cm San Pietro, Vaticano Michelangelo‘s only signature, carved across the Virgin’s sash: “Michael. Agelus. Bonarotus Florent Faciebat”. See also: Turner, Joseph (1775-1851) A Copy of Michelangelo’s Pieta 1827 Tate Britain, London    

Le mal du pays (c.1948)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) Le mal du pays (Homesickness) c.1948 Watercolor and gouache on paper, 45.5 x 35.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2013 C. Herscovici, London / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Au seuil de la liberté (1937)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) Au seuil de la liberté (On the Threshold of Liberty) 1937 Oil on canvas, 238.8 cm × 185.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 C. Herscovici, London / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York One of Surrealism’s…

La trahison des images (1929)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La trahison des images (The Treachery of Images) 1929 Oil on canvas, 60.33 x 81.12 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles © René Magritte Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Le faux miroir (1929)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) Le faux miroir (The False Mirror) 1929 Oil on canvas, 54 x 80.9 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2013 C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York A huge, isolated eye stares out at…

La condition humaine (1945)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La condition humaine (The Human Condition) 1945 Watercolor, crayon over graphite, ink and gouache, 42.20 x 32.20 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland © C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York During World War II, when…