Month: April 2021

La crocifissione (c.1504-1505)

Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) La crocifissione (The Crucifixion) c.1504–1505 Tempera, oil, and gilding on panel, 72.5 x 101.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In this horizontal painting, a crowd of more than two dozen men and women gathered shoulder to shoulder at…

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Madonna col Bambino, santi e angeli (1510s)

Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Madonna col Bambino, santi e angeli (Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels) mid or late 1510s Oil on panel transferred to hardboard, 155.7 x 135.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Pittogramma (1913)

Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Pittogramma (Pictograph) 1913 Watercolor, 34.6 x 27.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Desdemona’s Death-Song (1878-1880)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Desdemona’s Death-Song 1878–1880 Black chalk over traces of red chalk on two joined sheets of blue-green paper, 127 x 101.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Buste de jeune fille (1868)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Buste de jeune fille (Bust of a Young Girl) 1868 Terracotta with plaster, 31.1 x 16.5 x 17.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

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La Natività (c.1460)

Robbia, Luca della (1400-1482) La Natività (The Nativity) c.1460 Glazed terracotta, 56.5 x 47.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

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