Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) L’Ultima Cena (The Last Supper) 1494–1498 Dry wall-painting, 460 x 880 cm Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milano Leonardo did not use the traditional fresco technique to paint the Last Supper and the lunettes. He chose a method that…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (Zelfportret met strohoed) 1887 Oil on canvas, 41.8 cm x 31.5 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam F0061v-JH1302 Paris, July-August 1887 It’s lucky for us that Van Gogh was so often unable to afford…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait or Portrait of Theo van Gogh 1887 Oil on cardboard, 19 cm x 14.1 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Paris, Summer 1887 F0294, JH1209 This painting was long thought to be a self-portrait of Vincent; however,…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait (F 526, JH 1309) 1887 Oil on artist board, mounted to wood panel, 34.9 × 26.7 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit “For want of a better model,” Van Gogh chose to paint his own portrait on…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (Zelfportret met strohoed) 1887 Oil on cardboard, 40.9 cm x 32.8 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam F0469-JH1310 Paris, August-September 1887 Wearing light summer clothes, the artist examines us with one blue and one green…
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…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood 1885 Oil on canvas, 54 x 64.8 cm Tate Britain, London Sargent painted two portraits of Claude Monet, one of which, showing the sitter in profile, was exhibited at…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Il Ratto di Proserpina (The Rape of Proserpina) 1621–1622 Marble, 255 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The work portrays the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, god of the underworld. Narrated by both Claudian and Ovid, the myth tells…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Le Christ jaune (The Yellow Christ) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92.07 x 73.34 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo The Symbolists, who emerged during the 1880s, were weary of modern society and sought escape from reality. They began to…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Van Gogh peignant des tournesols (Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers) 1888 Oil on canvas, 73 x 91 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Was Van Gogh really painting a vase of sunflowers when his friend Gauguin produced this portrait of him?…