Tag: Art

The Four Rivers of Paradise (c.1615)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Four Rivers of Paradise c.1615 Oil on canvas, 208 × 283 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna According to the conventional interpretation, the four continents are depicted here as female allegoric figures paired with the gods of their…

Susanna e i vecchioni (c.1555-1556)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) c.1555–1556 Oil on canvas, 146 × 193.6 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna In the Old Testament, it is told how Susanna receives lewd proposals from two men who have secretly intruded…

Le simulacre transparent de l’image feinte (1938)

Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Le simulacre transparent de l’image feinte (The Transparent Simulacrum of the Feigned Image) 1938 Oil on canvas, 72.39 x 92.07 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1929, Salvador Dalí joined the artists of the Surrealist movement in…

En promenade près d’Argenteuil (1875)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) En promenade près d’Argenteuil (Out for a Walk near Argenteuil) 1875 Oil on canvas, 61 x 81.4 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris See also: • Argenteuil (France) | Doncieux, Camille (1847-1879) | Monet, Jean (1867-1914)

View of Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) View of Auvers-sur-Oise 1890 Oil on canvas, 34 x 42.1 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France)

Ritratto di un uomo (1533-1534)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di un uomo (Portrait of a Man, possibly Girolamo Rosati) 1533–1534 Oil on canvas, 108.2 x 100.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The gesture of the elegantly dressed man is a mystery. Is he rising from…

Jean dessinant (1901)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jean dessinant (The Artist’s Son, Jean, Drawing) 1901 Oil on canvas, 45.09 × 54.61 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond The simplified palette of this portrait of Renoir’s second son, Jean, is limited to a range of…

Bacco e Arianna (1520-1523)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Bacco e Arianna (Bacchus and Ariadne) 1520–1523 Oil on canvas, 176.5 x 191 cm National Gallery, London Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is one of the finest and most famous paintings in the National Gallery. The Cretan princess Ariadne has…