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Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (1624)

Guercino (1591-1666) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) 1624 Oil on canvas, diameter 68.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called il Guercino) created Rest on the Flight to Egypt as a…

Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio (1623)

Guercino (1591-1666) Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio (Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1623 Oil on copper, 72.5 x 65 cm National Gallery, London Mary and Joseph brought the infant Christ, forty days after his birth, to be presented in…

Madonna col Bambino (c.1490)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) c.1490 Tempera on panel, 88.9 x 55.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Botticelli oversaw an active workshop that produced multiple versions of the same composition. The central figures in this painting are…

Ia Orana Maria (1891)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) 1891 Oil on canvas, 113.7 x 87.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Before embarking on a series of pictures inspired by Polynesian religious beliefs, Gauguin devoted this, his first major Tahitian…

The Boating Party (1893-1894)

Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Boating Party 1893–1894 Oil on canvas, 90 x 117.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down into a lime-green and white rowboat carrying a woman holding a baby and a man in this…

Omaggio a Venere (1518)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Omaggio a Venere (Worship of Venus) 1518 Oil on canvas, 172 x 175 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Titian‘s first contribution to the Camerino d’Alabastro was prompted by the death in October 1517 of Fra Bartolommeo from whom Alfonso d’Este…