Tag: architecture

La Piazza della Signoria a Firenze (1740)

Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) La Piazza della Signoria a Firenze (The Piazza della Signoria in Florence) 1740 Oil on canvas, 61 × 90 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest See also: • Firenze (Italia) | Piazza della Signoria

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Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa (1804)

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). See…

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Prière à la mosquée (1871)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Prière à la mosquée (Prayer in the Mosque) 1871 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 74.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Cairo (Egypt)

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Sacré-Cœur (Paris)

Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre Groundbreaking: 1875 Inauguration: 1891 Completed: 1914 Consecrated: 1919 Address: 35 Rue du Chevalier de la Barre, 75018 Paris, France Website: http://www.sacre-coeur-montmartre.com/ Le Sacré-Cœur in Art: Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) L’église Saint-Pierre et le Sacré-Cœur à Paris 1912…

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Arrivo degli ambasciatori (c.1497-1498)

Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Arrivo degli ambasciatori (Arrival of the Ambassadors) c.1497–1498 Oil on canvas, 278 x 589 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia This is the first of nine paintings in the cycle of the Legend of St. Ursula (Storie di sant’Orsola). The paintings…

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