Raffaello (1483-1520) Autoritratto con un amico (Self-portrait with a friend) c.1518–1520 Oil on canvas, 99 x 83 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Autoritratto con un amico (c.1518-1520)
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Pietà (c.1503-1505)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Pietà c.1503–1505 Oil on poplar panel, 23.6 x 28.8 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). Not satisfied with a single Raphael painting, Isabella Stewart Gardner…
San Francesco d’Assisi (c.1502)
Raffaello (1483-1520) San Francesco d’Assisi (Saint Francis of Assisi) c.1502 Oil on panel, 25.8 x 16.8 cm Dulwich Picture Gallery, London This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). Saint Francis of Assisi (c.…
Self-Portrait (1542-1543)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Self-Portrait 1542–1543 Coloured chalk, pen and gold on paper, 32 x 26 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Portrait of Henry VIII of England (c.1537)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of Henry VIII of England c.1537 Oil on panel, 28 x 20 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Portraiture was the most popular genre in sixteenth-century England, and indeed one of the few available to artists following the…
Portrait de l’artiste au fond rose (c.1875)
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait de l’artiste au fond rose (Self-Portrait with Pink Background) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 66 x 55.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Ecce Homo (1547)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ecce Homo 1547 Oil on slate, 69 x 56 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Although we do not know when Titian first treated this subject, it was probably in 1535, when he painted a Christ for Federico Gonzaga following a…
Cristo crucificado, con un pintor (c.1650)
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Cristo crucificado, con un pintor (The Crucified Christ with a Painter) c.1650 Oil on canvas, 105 x 84 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A painter devoutly contemplates the almost-sculptural figure of Christ on the Cross, which stands…
Émile Zola (1868)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Émile Zola 1868 Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Emile Zola, Cézanne‘s boyhood friend, showed an early interest in painting. He was particularly interested in the artists rejected by the official critics. In 1866,…
La fin du déjeuner (1879)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La fin du déjeuner (After the Luncheon) 1879 Oil on canvas, 101 x 81 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt In the arbour of a Parisian restaurant, an abundant meal is drawing to a close. The actress Ellen Andrée has taken…