Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Village 1607 Oil on copper, 21 x 32 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Village (1607)
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The Birds (1963)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Producer: Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay: Evan Hunter Based on: The Birds by Daphne du Maurier Genre: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Romantic | Thriller Music: Bernard Herrmann Country: United States Language: English Studio: Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions |…
El rodeo (1861)
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) El rodeo (The rodeo) 1861 Oil on canvas, 76 x 166 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires In a note probably written by Miguel Cané Sr., La Tribuna commented on the painting A Stop in…
Estate (c.1546-1548)
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Estate (Summer) c.1546–1548 Oil on canvas, 105.7 x 193 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Summer is represented here as Ceres, goddess of agriculture, reclining in front of her attribute, a row of wheat stalks. The work…
The Evening of the Deluge (c.1843)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Evening of the Deluge c.1843 Oil on canvas, 76 x 76 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A butter-yellow sky fills the top two-thirds of this square landscape painting while in the bottom third,…
The Junction of the Thames and the Medway (1807)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Junction of the Thames and the Medway 1807 Oil on canvas, 108.8 x 143.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look across churning waves at four sailing ships and a wooden rowboat with…
Après la chasse (c.1859)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Après la chasse (After the Hunt) c.1859 Oil on canvas, 236.2 x 186.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In style, scale, and composition, this work strongly resembles Courbet’s first hunting scene, The Quarry, a great…
Ritratto di Giovanni de’ Medici bambino (1545)
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Giovanni de’ Medici bambino (Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child) 1545 Oil on panel, 58 x 45.6 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Medici, Giovanni di Cosimo I de’ (1543-1562)
Il Tramonto (1506-1510)
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Il Tramonto (The Sunset) 1506–1510 Oil on canvas, 73.3 cm x 91.4 cm National Gallery, London The meaning of this scene, which takes place in a rocky landscape at sunset or sunrise, is difficult to decipher, largely because…
The Ascension of Christ (1636)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Ascension of Christ 1636 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 68.3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The so-called ‘Passion Cycle’ was painted for the stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. The six paintings…