Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Gloomy Day (Early Spring / February-March) 1565 Oil on oak panel, 118 x 163 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The picture represents late winter or early spring with such seasonal activities as collecting wood and cutting willow…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Parable of the Sower 1557 Oil on wood panel, 73.7 × 102.9 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego Pieter Bruegel the Elder took pleasure in burying the lead. Many of his mature works had lofty,…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Netherlandish Proverbs 1559 Oil on oak panel, 117.2 x 163.8 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SHELFMARK / INSCRIPTION: Reference lower right: BRVEGEL • 1559 The picture brings together 100 proverbs and places them in surroundings that are as…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Tower of Babel c.1568 Oil on panel, 59.9 x 74.6 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam In this famous painting Bruegel depicts the biblical story of man’s hubris and their desire to build a…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Tower of Babel 1563 Oil on oak, 114.4 × 155.5 × 3.8 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Designated at the bottom of a cuboid: BRVEGEL. FE. M.CCCCC.LXIII Bruegel’s monumental composition became the most famous, most often…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Tamise à Westminster (The Thames at Westminster) c.1871 Oil on canvas, 47 x 73 cm National Gallery, London Monet arrived in London in September 1870, fleeing from the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, and stayed until May…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jardin à Sainte-Adresse (Garden at Sainte-Adresse) 1867 Oil on canvas, 98.1 x 129.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monet spent the summer of 1867 with his family at Sainte-Adresse, a seaside resort near Le Havre. It was…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le Déjeuner des canotiers (Luncheon of the Boating Party) 1880–1881 Oil on canvas, canvas 130.2 x 175.6 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington Detail of Aline Charigot. Detail of Gustave Caillebotte. Detail of Ellen Andrée drinking in the center. Detail…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Déjeuner au bord de la rivière (Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise, The Rowers’ Lunch) 1875 Oil on canvas, canvas 55.1 x 65.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Chatou (France) | Restaurant Fournaise (Chatou)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm National Gallery, London Turner’s painting is based on the English seventeenth-century author and poet John Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, the monumental Latin poem written by…