Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna Greca (The Greek Madonna) c.1460–1465 Oil on panel, 84 x 64 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The so-called ‘Greek Madonna’ by Giovanni Bellini takes its nickname from the Greek μήτηρ Θεού, seen at the top of…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Pietà c.1460 Tempera on panel, 86 x 107 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Signature: HAEC FERE QUUM GEMITUS TURGENTIA LUMINA PROMANT / BELLINI POTERAT FLERE IONNIS OPUS (This is whwn the lights of grievance pooceed / The…
Bellini, Gentile (c.1429-1507) & Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Predica di San Marco in una piazza di Alessandria d’Egitto (Saint Mark Preaching in a Square of Alexandria in Egypt) 1504–1507 Oil on canvas, 347 x 770 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Rissa in galleria (Riot in the Gallery) 1910 Oil on canvas, 74 x 64 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano After a period spent in Rome, the artist decided to move to Paris in 1906, driven by poverty and disillusioned…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) La città che sale (The City Rises) 1910 Tempera on paper, 36 x 60 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano After a period spent in Rome, the artist decided to move to Paris in 1906, driven by poverty…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto, verso (Self-Portrait, back) 1908? Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Painted on the back of the 1908 Self-Portrait, this further self-portrait by the artist may predate it by a few years,…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1908 Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The work, executed in 1908 in Boccioni‘s studio on Via Adige in Milan, offered the artist the opportunity to fully portray the landscape…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Tre donne (Three Women) 1909–1910 Oil on canvas, 180 × 132 cm Banca Commerciale Italiana, Milano The artist represents the three ages of women through the figures of her mother Cecilia, her beloved sister Amelia and the model Ines.…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1905 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 68.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Sviluppo di una bottiglia nello spazio (Development of a Bottle in Space) 1913, cast 1950 Bronze, 39.4 x 60.3 x 39.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In March 1912 Boccioni wrote, “These days I am obsessed…