Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Pygmalion et Galatée (Pygmalion and Galatea) c.1890 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 68.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Between 1890 and 1892, Gérôme made both painted and sculpted variations on the theme of Pygmalion and Galatea, the…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) César mort (The Dead Caesar) c.1859 Graphite on wove paper, 16.7 x 32.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Julius Caesar, Gaius (100 BC-44 BC)
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Anacréon, Bacchus et l’Amour (Anacreon with the Infants Bacchus and Cupid) modeled 1878 (cast c.1893) Bronze, 72.4 × 43.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the early 19th century, industrial approaches to production created a new middle-class market for small-scale…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Vol turc de femmes (Turkish Robbery of Women) 1852 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.5 cm Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Femme aux pigeons (Woman with Pigeons) c.1865 Oil on canvas, 79.7 x 60.6 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Though Gustave Courbet was best known for his early paintings of French peasants, in later decades he focused on scenes of animals,…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus Frigida (Cold Venus) 1614 Oil on panel, 143 x 184 x 3.8 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp The title refers to Terence: “sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus” (“without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes”)…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) The Lamentation over the Dead Christ c.1640 Oil on canvas, 115.5 × 207.5 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp Christ’s dead body is laid out across the entrance to a cave, his head resting on Mary’s…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Nu assis (Sitting Nude) 1917 Oil on canvas, 114.5 × 71.5 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Annunciazione (Annunciation) 1578 Oil on canvas, 271 x 541 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) c.1540–1542 Oil on canvas, 201 x 119 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia