Month: November 2013

Caravaggio

(1571–1610) Michelangelo Merisi The artist’s works: Ragazzo che monda un frutto 1592–1593 Fondazione Roberto Longhi, Firenze Ragazzo che monda un frutto c.1592–1593 Hampton Court Palace, London Ragazzo che monda un frutto c.1592–1593 Private collection Ragazzo morso da un ramarro c.1594–1595 National…

Raffaello Sanzio

(1483–1520) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino The artist’s works: Resurrezione di Cristo 1499–1502 Museu de Arte, São Paulo Angelo, Pala Baronci 1500–1501 Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia Angelo che tiene un filatterio 1500–1501 Musée du Louvre, Paris Eterno Padre e la Vergine…

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

(1617–1682) The artist’s works: La Anunciación c.1650 Museo del Prado, Madrid Magdalena penitente c.1650–1665 Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Sagrada Familia del pajarito c.1650 Museo del Prado, Madrid Santa Rosa de Viterbo c.1650 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Dos mujeres en la…

Aux courses en province (1869)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux courses en province (At the Races in the Countryside) 1869 Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 55.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston At once merging and disrupting the traditional categories of landscape, genre scene, and family portrait,…

Chez la modiste (1881)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chez la modiste (At the Milliner’s) 1881 Pastel on paper, 69.2 x 69.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Two customers in nearly identical dresses—perhaps a mother and daughter or two sisters—are seen from behind in a…

La classe de danse (1874)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1874 Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 77.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work and its variant in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, represent the most ambitious paintings Degas devoted to…

La classe de danse (1873-1876)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1873–1876 Oil on canvas, 85.5 x 75 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Degas regularly went to the Paris opera house, not only as a member of the audience, but as a visitor…

Ritratto del Cardinale Bibbiena (c.1516)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto del Cardinale Bibbiena (Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena) c.1516 Oil on panel, 85 x 66.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze Bernardo Dovizi (Bibbiena 1470– Rome 1520) was a scholar and a diplomat, as well as a friend and trusted private secretary…