Pontormo (1494-1557) Madonna col Bambino, San Giuseppe e San Giovanni Battista (Madonna and Child with St Joseph and St John the Baptist) Early 1520s Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 120 x 98.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Among the celebrated…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) San Sebastiano (St Sebastian) 1493–1494 Tempera, oil on linden panel, 53.8 x 39.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Sebastian was a Roman soldier who served in the private guard of the Emperor Diocletian. For his faith in the teachings…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna delle Grazie (Our Lady of Grace) 1st half of the 16th century Oil on canvas Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Napoléon en Egypte (Napoleon in Egypt) 1863 Oil on panel, 21 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg General Bonaparte with his Headquarters in Egypt. A Sketch. Compare: Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Napoléon en Egypte 1867–1868 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton …
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nature morte avec des tournesols sur un fauteuil (Still Life with Sunflowers on an armchair) 1901 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In 1901, when this painting was produced, Gauguin was still living…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Paysage avec un cheval mort (Landscape with a Dead Horse) 2nd half of the 1850s Oil on canvas, 45 x 56 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Its subject marked by the influence of Romanticism is full of mystery.…
Miró, Joan (1893-1983) La terre labourée (The Tilled Field) 1923–1924 Oil on canvas, 66 x 92.7 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York During the summer of 1923 Joan Miró began painting The Tilled Field, a view of his family’s farm in Montroig, Catalonia.…
Miró, Joan (1893-1983) Caballo, pipa y flor roja (Horse, Pipe, and Red Flower) 1920 Oil on canvas, 82.6 x 74.9 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Miró painted this work at his home in the Spanish village of Montroig shortly after his…
Miró, Joan (1893-1983) La casa de la palmera (House with Palm Tree) 1918 Oil on canvas, 65 x 73 cm Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid Joan Miró’s searches for new plastic solutions between 1916 and 1918 led to the creation of four ‘detailist’…
(1893–1983) Joan Miró i Ferrà The artist’s works: La casa de la palmera 1918 Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid Caballo, pipa y flor roja 1920 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia La masía 1921–1922 National Gallery of Art, Washington La terre labourée 1923–1924 Guggenheim Museum, New…