Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) The Siesta, or Pompeian Scene 1868 Oil on canvas, 130 x 369 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A domestic scene set in classical antiquity. An old man and a youth recline on divans while an attractive young woman…
Pontormo (1494-1557) Visitazione (Visitation) c.1528–1530 Oil on panel, 202 x 156 cm Santi Michele e Francesco, Carmignano
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Étude d’Honoré de Balzac (Study of Honoré de Balzac) 1891–1892 Bronze, 52.7 x 39.4 x 32.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In 1891 Rodin was commissioned to create a monument honoring the celebrated French writer Honoré de…
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) San Girolamo (Saint Jerome) c.1638–1640 Oil on canvas, 129 x 100.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Saint Jerome (about ad 347–420) translated biblical texts into Latin. Although he sometimes appears as a scholar in his study,…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) La Vie (Life) 1903 Oil on canvas, 196.5 x 129.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In 1901, depressed over the suicide of a close friend, Picasso launched into the melancholic paintings of his Blue period (1901–4). Only…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) San Sebastiano (Saint Sebastian) c.1493 Metalpoint, 25.6 x 14.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The Florentine painter Perugino made drawings to record figural types and poses that could be repeated throughout his finished paintings. He used the elegant,…
Parmigianino (1503-1540) La sepoltura (The Entombment) 1529–1530 Etching, 27.1 x 20.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland One of the most important Mannerist painters, Parmigianino was the first artist to exploit the fluid, expressive potential of etching. The graphic vocabulary of…
Orozco, José Clemente (1883-1949) Soldado herido (Wounded Soldier) 1930 Oil on canvas, 113 x 93 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The central figure in a movement of revolutionary artists responding to political turmoil in Mexico during the 1920s, José Orozco believed…
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Aeneas Shown the Body of Pallas from Virgil’s “Aeneid” 1843 Pen and black ink on original mount, 36.1 x 48.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Inscribed, original mount, lower right, in black ink: J. E. Millais…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Persée et Andromède (Perseus and Andromeda) c.1819 Oil on canvas, 19.7 × 16.2 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Ingres‘s vulnerable figure of Andromeda is the “classic” idealized figure study. The fact that she is being…