Category: Art

Visión del Apocalipsis (1608-1614)

El Greco (1541-1614) Visión del Apocalipsis (The Vision of Saint John) c.1608–1614 Oil on canvas, 222.3 x 193 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The painting is a fragment from a large altarpiece commissioned for the church of the…

San Jerónimo (c.1610)

El Greco (1541-1614) San Jerónimo (Saint Jerome as Scholar) c.1610 Oil on canvas, 108 x 89 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York El Greco executed at least five paintings of Saint Jerome. In this version, from the last years…

Cristo abrazado a la cruz (1577-1587)

El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo abrazado a la cruz (Christ Carrying the Cross) c.1577–1587 Oil on canvas, 105 x 79 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During his long career in Spain, El Greco produced numerous paintings of Christ carrying…

Vista de Toledo (1599-1600)

El Greco (1541-1614) Vista de Toledo (View of Toledo) c.1599–1600 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 108.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this, his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for…

Santa Maria Maggiore (Roma)

Basilica Papale di Santa Maria Maggiore Papale Arcibasilica Maggiore Arcipretale Liberiana di Santa Maria Maggiore Groundbreaking: 432 Construction started: 435 Completed: 1743 Designated as World Heritage Site: 1980 Address: Piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore, 00100 Roma, Italia Website: https://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/sm_maggiore/index_en.html Burials:…

Orsay (W)

• Whistler, James (1834-1903): Fantin-Latour drawing (1859) • Whistler, James (1834-1903): Whistler’s Mother (1871)

Orsay (V)

• Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890): Eugène Boch (1888) • Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890): Hôpital Saint-Paul à Saint-Rémy (1889) • Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890): La Chambre de Van Gogh à Arles (1889) • Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890): Le docteur Paul Gachet (1890) • Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890):…