Tag: Art

Portrait of a Woman (1525-1527)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of a Woman 1525–1527 Oil on wood, 35.9 × 25.1 cm National Gallery, London Cranach only painted a handful of portraits showing women of the Saxon court during his time as court painter to the…

Portrait de Cézanne (1874)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Portrait de Cézanne (Portrait of Cézanne) 1874 Oil on canvas, 73 × 59.7 cm National Gallery, London On loan from the collection of Laurence Graff OBE, © Laurence Graff OBE Pissarro‘s influence profoundly changed the direction of Cézanne‘s art…

Windmill (c.1917)

Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) Windmill c.1917 Oil on canvas, 100.33 × 95.25 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Even in his own lifetime, Piet Mondrian was lauded as the founder of the most modern, avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. Nevertheless, before…

Apple Tree, Pointillist Version (1908-1909)

Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) Apple Tree, Pointillist Version 1908–1909 Oil on composition board, 56.83 × 74.93 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This tree is composed of radiating branches of intense color and slashing lines. For Mondrian, the precise depiction of a specific…

Place de la Concorde (1938-1943)

Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) Place de la Concorde 1938–1943 Oil on canvas, 94.62 x 94.62 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas The horizontal and vertical black stripes and blocks of yellow, blue, and red against a white background create an active pattern of…

Anna Bellini

Anna Bellini in Art: Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio c.1470 Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia   Husband Jacopo Bellini (c.1400-c.1470) Son Gentile Bellini (c.1429-1507) Son Giovanni Bellini (c.1430-1516) Daughter Nicolosia Mantegna, née Bellini Son-in-law Andrea Mantegna (c.1431-1506)

Le Port de La Ciotat (1907)

Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le Port de La Ciotat (The Port of La Ciotat) 1907 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Braque was raised in the Normandy port town of Le Havre, where he first studied…