Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Spring 1894 Oil on canvas, 178.4 × 80.3 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles Barefoot young women and children adorned with flower crowns and playing musical instruments lead a procession through a city built of marble. Splashes of color,…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Isola nella laguna con una porta e una chiesa (An Island in the Lagoon with a Gateway and a Church) 1743–1744 Oil on canvas, 51.1 x 68.6 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Seemingly a painting of a…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 120 x 102 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest “There is one man who makes easy what we have always been told is impossible; and that is Paolo…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Caino uccide Abele (Cain Killing Abel) 1540s Oil on wood, 31 × 78.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Guercino (1591-1666) Flagellazione di Cristo (The Flagellation of Christ) c.1641–1644 Oil on canvas, 351 x 176.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Giovanni Francesco Barbieri eked out his first fifty years in his native town, day after day waiting for the death…
Gros, Antoine-Jean (1771-1835) Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa (Bonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa) 1804 Oil on canvas, 523 x 715 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Napoléon Bonaparte is shown visiting the plague victims of Jaffa (March 11, 1799). Mosque…
Campin, Robert (c.1378-1444) The Annunciation 1420–1425 Oil on oak panel, 76 x 70 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The event is set in a gothic temple, alluding to the New Law that replaces the old one, represented by the Romanesque tower in…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Prière à la mosquée (Prayer in the Mosque) 1874 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 74.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gérôme painted this scene, which depicts the interior of the seventh-century mosque of ‘Amr in Cairo, after…
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Triomphe romain (Roman Triumph) 1889 Etching on paper, 28.3 x 39.8 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Arco trionfale a Venezia (Triumphal Arch in Venice) s.d. Oil on panel, 15 × 13 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp See also: • Venezia (Italia)