Tag: Boston

Tommaso Inghirami (c.1510)

Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Tommaso Inghirami c.1510 Oil on wood, 90 x 62.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Lost in thought, Inghirami gazes up and to the right. Raphael may have chosen this angle to diminish the impact of the sitter’s…

Pala Colonna (1504-1505)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Pala Colonna (Colonna Altarpiece) c.1504–1505 Oil and gold on wood, 242 x 169.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Raphael painted this altarpiece around 1504/5 for the Franciscan convent of Sant’Antonio in Perugia. It hung in a part of…

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 Not satisfied with a single Raphael painting, Isabella Stewart Gardner waited just two years before purchasing her second work by the artist. This small panel,…

Madame Auguste Manet (c.1866)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Auguste Manet c.1866 Oil on canvas, 98 x 80 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston This portrait of the artist’s mother, Eugénie-Désirée Fournier Manet (1811-1885), shows her in the widow’s black mourning dress she donned after her…

Edgar Allan Poe

(1809–1849) Born Edgar Poe Works: • The Raven (1845) • The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry Translations of his Works: • Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898): Le Corbeau d’Edgar Poe (1875) Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Illustration to The Raven by Edgar…

Columbus Avenue (Boston)

Columbus Avenue in Art: Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Columbus Avenue Rainy Day 1885 Private collection     Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Columbus Avenue, Rainy Day 1885 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester     Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Rainy Day, Boston 1885 Toledo Museum of Art,…

Beacon Hill (Boston)

Beacon Hill in Art: Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Charles River and Beacon Hill c.1892 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston     See also: • Boston, MA (USA) | Districts

Castle Island (Boston)

Castle Island in Art: Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Castle Island, Boston Harbor 1916 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA     See also: • Boston, MA (USA)

Childe Hassam

(1859–1935) Frederick Childe Hassam The artist’s works: Boston Common at Twilight 1885–1886 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Columbus Avenue, Rainy Day 1885 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Columbus Avenue Rainy Day 1885 Private collection Rainy Day, Boston 1885 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo…