Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Venus Italica 1812 Marble, h. 171.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze In 1802, passing through Florence and at the height of his notoriety, Antonio Canova was commissioned by the King of Etruria, Ludovico di Borbone, to make a copy…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Paolina Borghese Bonaparte come Venere Vincitrice (Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix) 1804–1808 Carrara marble, 160 x 92 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma Portrayed by Antonio Canova in the guise Venus victorious in the Judgement of Paris, Pauline Borghese…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Le tre Grazie (Three Graces) 1813–1816 Marble, h. 182 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg A late work by Canova, The Three Graces was produced at a time when the artist was so famous that the public eagerly awaited…
Raffaello (1483-1520) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) c.1506 Oil on panel, 28.5 x 21.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Raphael was born in Urbino, a central Italian duchy noted for its elegant gentility and Renaissance scholarship.…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Mother of Pearl and Silver: The Andalusian c.1888 (?)-1900 Oil on canvas, 191.5 x 89.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Ethel Philip, Whistler‘s sister-in-law and a favorite subject of the artist, whose likeness appears in…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Venus del Espejo (Venus at her Mirror, The Rokeby Venus) 1647–1651 Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 177 cm National Gallery, London This is the only surviving female nude painted by Velázquez. The subject was rare in seventeenth-century Spain,…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) L’homme au balcon, boulevard Haussmann (Man on a Balcony) 1880 Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89.5 cm Private collection See also: • Boulevard Haussmann (Paris) | Courtier, Albert (1844-1922)
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Les orangers (The Orange Trees) 1878 Oil on canvas, 154.94 x 116.84 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston With brilliant hues of reds, greens, purples, and yellows, laid down in the flickering brushwork typical of Impressionism, Gustave Caillebotte…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Pont de l’Europe (On the Pont de l’Europe) 1876–1877 Oil on canvas, 105.7 x 130.8 cm Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Although his closest artist friends were Monet and Renoir, the key advocates for loose brushwork and bright color,…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Jeune homme à sa fenêtre (Young Man at His Window) 1876 Oil on canvas, 116 x 81 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles This painting presents a young man in a dark suit standing at a large open window…