Correggio (c.1489-1534) Giove e Io (Jupiter and Io) c.1530 Oil on canvas, 162 × 73.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Jupiter fell in love with Io, the beautiful daughter of the river god. The shy nymph wanted to flee, but the god…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Femme nue couchée (Reclining Female Nude) 1844–1845 Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ninfa e pastore (Nymph and shepherd) c.1570–1575 Oil on canvas, 149.6 × 187 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The theme on which the picture is based has not yet been satisfactorily clarified, but Titian raised it to the mythical level…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus at the Mirror 1613–1614 Oil on panel, 124 x 98 cm Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching) 1892 Oil on jute mounted on canvas, 73.02 x 92.39 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1891, after many years without commercial success in France, Paul Gauguin traveled to the…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) L’Enfant au tablier rouge (Child in a Red Apron) 1886 Oil on canvas, 60 x 49.9 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) 1844 Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.6 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia The subject of this painting was inspired by Lord Byron‘s dramatic poem of 1821 about the life of an…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La baigneuse, dite Baigneuse de Valpinçon (The Bather, known as The Valpinçon Bather) 1808 Oil on canvas, 146 x 97.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Body of a woman naked from behind seated on the edge of…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La boîte de Pandore (Pandora’s box) 1951 Oil on canvas, 45.4 × 54.9 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Deux femmes (Two Women) c.1908 Bronze, 45.7 x 25.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Matisse based this sculpture on a photograph of two women embracing, but translated it into a more compact, three-dimensional composition by fusing their…