Month: April 2017

Autoritratto, verso (1908)

Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto, verso (Self-Portrait, back) 1908? Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Painted on the back of the 1908 Self-Portrait, this further self-portrait by the artist may predate it by a few years,…

Autoritratto (1908)

Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1908 Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The work, executed in 1908 in Boccioni‘s studio on Via Adige in Milan, offered the artist the opportunity to fully portray the landscape…

Tre donne (1909-1910)

Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Tre donne (Three Women) 1909–1910 Oil on canvas, 180 × 132 cm Banca Commerciale Italiana, Milano The artist represents the three ages of women through the figures of her mother Cecilia, her beloved sister Amelia and the model Ines.…

Autoritratto (1905)

Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1905 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 68.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sviluppo di una bottiglia nello spazio (1913)

Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Sviluppo di una bottiglia nello spazio (Development of a Bottle in Space) 1913, cast 1950 Bronze, 39.4 x 60.3 x 39.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In March 1912 Boccioni wrote, “These days I am obsessed…

Antigrazioso (1913)

Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Antigrazioso (Antigraceful) 1913, cast 1950 Bronze, 58.4 × 53.3 × 41.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this bust of his mother, Cecilia Forlani Boccioni, the artist employs Cubist distortions and fragmentation to undermine conventional…

Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (1913)

Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (Unique Forms of Continuity in Space) 1913, cast 1950 Bronze, 121.3 x 88.9 x 40 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Futurists’ celebration of the fast pace and mechanical…

Madonna col Bambino benedicente e cherubini (c.1455)

Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Madonna col Bambino benedicente e cherubini (Madonna and Child Blessing) c.1455 Tempera on wood, 82 x 55 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Different ideas have been put forward regarding the original provenance of the panel, which, in the…