Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Nascita di San Giovanni Battista (Birth of St John the Baptist) 1550s Oil on canvas, 181 x 266 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Jacopo Tintoretto was the last great master of the Italian Renaissance. The majority of his…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Testa d’uomo (Head of a Man) 1480s Pen and brush on paper, 26.9 x 18.7 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Port de Marseille (Harbour at Marseilles) 1907 Oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The pointillist technique used in this painting consists of small dotted applications of paint, and is sometimes also described as…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Fort Samson, Grandcamp 1885 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also: • Grandcamp-Maisy (France) | Normandie
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Madonna col Bambino e cherubini (Madonna and Child with Cherubs) 1520s Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 111 x 75.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The Florentine Mannerist Rosso Fiorentino developed at an early age an extravagant, experimental…
Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Naturaleza muerta (Still Life) 1913 Oil on canvas, 84 x 65 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Ecce Homo 1632–1634 Oil on canvas, 57 x 46 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
(1909–1992) The artist’s works: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion 1944 Tate Britain, London Study for a Portrait 1952 Tate Britain, London Study for Crouching Nude 1952 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Study for ‘Portrait of Van Gogh IV’…
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents 1786 Oil on canvas, 303 x 297 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In 1785 Joshua Reynolds, President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, was commissioned by Catherine II of Russia to paint…
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) A Nymph and Cupid: ‘The Snake in the Grass’ exhibited 1784 Oil on canvas, 124.5 x 99.1 cm Tate Britain, London Compare: Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus 1788 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg