Madonna col Bambino (1466)

Donatello (1386-1466) & workshop Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) 1466 Terra cotta relief, in painted decor with gilt carved wood bracket, 56.5 x 40.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Donatello was the leading sculptor in Florence during the fifteenth century when…

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Table plus cafetière (1919)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Table plus cafetière (Table plus coffee pot) 1919 Graphite, tempera, and/or watercolor on paper, 17.8 x 24.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Design for a detail of the cut cloth, from “La Boutique Fantasque (The Fantastic Toy Shop)”.

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Les Cousins du peintre (c.1868-1870)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Les Cousins du peintre (Double Portrait, The Cousins of the Painter) c.1868–1870 Oil on canvas, 58 x 75 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This portrait of Edgar Degas’s Italian cousins, Camilla and Elena Montejasi-Cicerale, is one of several that he…

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Les Saltimbanques (1865)

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Les Saltimbanques (The Saltimbanques Changing Place) 1865 Chalk and watercolor on paper, 40.4 x 31.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

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The Feast of Herod (1531)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) The Feast of Herod 1531 Oil on panel, 81.3 x 119.7 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford The biblical story of Salome was popular during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, when it was seen as a cautionary tale of…

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