Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1426 Tempera on panel, 162.3 x 191.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This altarpiece was painted for the monastery of Santo Domenico in Fiesole, near Florence. The central panel shows the Archangel Gabriel’s Annunciation to…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Femme assise sur un banc (Woman Seated on a Bench) c.1874 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 55.9 cm Tate Britain, London This picture has also been known under such titles as ‘In the Park’, ‘Woman in a Park’…
Scott, William Bell (1811-1890) Fair Rosamund in her Bower after 1854 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 49.5 cm Private collection Comentary by Rupert Maas: Scott first painted the subject of Rosamund in 1854, for exhibition in the Royal Scottish Academy. This…
Scott, William Bell (1811-1890) Fair Rosamond Alone in Her Bower c.1853 Oil on canvas, 68 x 51.4 cm Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow Compare: De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Queen Eleanor and the Fair Rosamund Probably 1901–1902 De Morgan Collection Rossetti,…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre-Dame de la Garde à Marseille (Notre Dame de la Garde in Marseille) 1937 Gouache and watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper, 46.4 x 67.6 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester See also: • Marseille (France)
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) San Benedetto ordina a san Mauro di resuscitare san Placido (Saint Benedict Orders Saint Maurus to the Rescue of Saint Placidus) c.1445–1450 Tempera on panel, 40 x 69.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Two men are situated inside…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Bouquet 1916–1917 Oil on canvas, 139.7 x 102.24 cm San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Paolo et Francesca (Paolo and Francesca) 1814 Oil on canvas, 35 cm x 28 cm Musée Condé, Chantilly Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Francesca da Rimini et Paolo Malatesta 1819 Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne Ingres, Jean Auguste…
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Mariana 1851 Oil on mahogany, 59.7 x 49.5 cm Tate Britain, London When it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851, this picture was accompanied by the following lines from Tennyson‘s Mariana (1830): She only said,…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Conversation in a Park (Gainsborough and his wife?) c.1746–1748 Oil on canvas, 73 × 68 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris An early example of a conversation piece by Gainsborough. Often compared with Gainsborough‘s drawn portrait, from the same…