Tag: Art

Madonna Benois (1478-1480)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Benois 1478–1480 Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 49.5 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg One of the greatest geniuses of the Renaissance era, Leonardo da Vinci combined the talents of artist and scientist, inventor…

Madonna Litta (mid-1490s)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Litta mid 1490s Tempera on canvas (handed over from panel), 42 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg This painting would seem to have been produced in Milan, where the artist moved in 1482. It was one…

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (1887)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (F 365v, JH 1354) 1887 Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 31.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (obverse: The Potato Peeler) Van Gogh produced more than twenty self-portraits during his Parisian…