David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) La mort de Socrate (The Death of Socrates) 1787 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 196.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this landmark of Neoclassical painting from the years immediately preceding the French Revolution, David took up…
Constable, John (1776-1837) Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Grounds 1826 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 112.4 cm Frick Collection, New York This is one of several versions that Constable painted of the south facade of Salisbury Cathedral, the celebrated Anglican church about…
Constable, John (1776-1837) Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Grounds c.1825 Oil on canvas, 87.9 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting was made as a full-scale study for the picture of 1826 now in the Frick Collection, New…
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Meditazione sulla passione (The Meditation on the Passion) c.1490 Oil and tempera on wood, 66.5 × 84.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This remarkable picture is a meditation on death and resurrection. Christ’s dead body is displayed…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Pandora 1871 Oil on canvas, 131 x 79 cm Private collection
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Pandora 1881 Watercolor on paper, 26 x 24.3 cm Private collection
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) Pandora c.1896 Oil on canvas, 91.12 x 152 cm Private collection
Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Pandore (Pandora) c.1914 Oil on canvas, 143.5 x 62.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In classical mythology, Pandora was a supremely beautiful woman created by the gods and sent to Earth to live among mortals. Redon…
Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923) Portrait funéraire de Jacques Damala (Funerary Portrait of Jacques Damala) c.1889 Marble, 27.9 x 46 x 31.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The great tragic actress, Sarah Bernhardt, was also a gifted sculptor. She carved this…
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) An Egyptian in a Doorway 1865 Oil on wood, 55.9 x 39.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In the mid-1860s, Alma-Tadema painted a number of subjects set in ancient Egypt, in which convincing archaeological precision and uncanny…